Stewart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 135 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Sandoval (1990), Hogan v. Hanks (1996)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Little v. State · Townsend v. State · Brooks v. State · Walker v. State · Guenther v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'stray from the central issue of guilt or innocence of the defendant into a full-scale investigation of charges made by the prosecutrix against other persons'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walton · Hogan v. State“that the victim was not only a minor, but one of tender age, he was handicapped, and [defendant]'s acts caused the [victims] serious emotional harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bear v. State · Horton v. State“particularized individual cireumstances which constitute separate aggravating factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bear v. State · Meadows v. State
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.