Stock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. O'Neill Investigations, Inc. (1980), State v. Erickson (1978)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Fay v. Noia · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Connally v. General Construction Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) there can be no question as to its applicability to the particular offense involved, and (b) a construction may be placed upon the statute so that in the future the type of offenses coming within its purview may reasonably be understood.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Holton v. State · Morrow v. State“Courts have often recognized that the possibility of difficult or borderline cases will not invalidate a statute where there is a hard core of cases to which the ordi nary person would doubtless know the statute unquestionably applies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Holton v. State · Turney v. State““While we may be able to conceive of instances in which the statute could be arbitrarily and capriciously enforced, we cannot on the basis of such mere hypothesis, in the absence of any history of actual arbitrary application, invalidate the statute.” 15”
3 later decisions 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.