Stack v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Irick v. United States (1989), Hercules & Co. v. Shama Restaurant Corp. (1992)
1 district · 57 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 Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court commits reversible error when it refuses to present adequately a defendant's theory of the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“usurp the jury's prerogative of determining credibility, weighing the evidence, and drawing reasonable inferences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law does not require the doing of a futile act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.