Stogsdill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
66
cited by 66 later decisions
1
states following
October 1988
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Flores v. State · Culmore v. State · Moore v. State · Indo v. State · Higgins 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A conviction on circumstantial evidence cannot be sustained if the circumstances proven do not exclude every other reasonable hypothesis except that of the guilt of the accused; and proof amounting only to a strong suspicion or mere probability is insufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Earnhart 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.