Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Modesitt v. State (1991), Gibson v. State (2000)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Patterson v. State · Wagner v. State · McFarlan v. Fowler Bank City Trust Co. · Cook v. Hoppin · United States v. Zeuli
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'discretion' implies the absence of a hard and fast rule or a mandatory procedure regardless of varying circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“illustrate previous testimony or present a different version of the facts to which [the child victim] testified at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DeMotte v. State · Thacker v. State“fabrication or improper influence or motive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. State · Modesitt 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.