Stopher v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
60
cited by 60 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
59 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Witt · Swain v. State of Alabama · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intent may be inferred from actions because a person is presumed to intend the logical and probable consequences of his conduct, and a person's state of mind may be inferred from actions preceding and following the charged offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]estow[s] a substantial right upon the exercise of a peremptory challenge,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any consideration on appeal of alleged prosecutorial misconduct must center on the overall fairness of the trial. In order to justify reversal, the misconduct of the prosecutor must be so serious as to render the entire trial fundamentally unfair.”
2 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.