Kentucky v. Stincer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
487 federal appellate · 34 district · 1,192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,234 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Harris v. Reed (1989)
487 federal appellate · 34 district · 1,192 state decisions — followed in 48 states
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 Faretta v. California · Simmons v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts
Cited together with Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Gagnon · Strickland v. Washington · Delaware v. Fensterer · California v. Green
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 2,234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at any stage of the criminal proceeding that is critical to its outcome if his presence would contribute to the fairness of the procedure.”
87 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he Confrontation Clause guarantees only 'an opportunity for effective cross-examination, not cross-examination that is effective in whatever way, and to whatever extent, the defense might wish.'”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ross-examination is the principal means by which the believability of a witness and the truth of his testimony are tested.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.