State v. Stidham’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1992 · most notably Swenson v. Stidham (1973), State v. Newberry (1980)
6 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The insuperable difficulty with this particular claim of infringement of due process is that it is not supported by the record. * * * The only circumstance now present as to both Creighton and Trout is * * * that in July 1955 they did testify as state’s witnesses and subsequently their sentences were commuted * * * and aside from the bare fact of the commuted sentences * * * ‘(t)he record is barren of facts to support such allegations.’ * * * Thus upon this record there was no support for the charge * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sims
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.