Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Nethery v. State (1985), Mayes v. State (1991)
54 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 Williams v. State · Guzman v. State · Young v. State · Lanham v. State · Haas 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... She will still have the scars of some sort that will bring her back to that point in time when she was in that trailer and now she knows or has some idea of the impact of what went on and she knows how it was bad and wrong, and I'm sure it's embarrassing to her, and don't you know it will always embarrass her if someone will know what happened to her back when she was a little girl at the hands of this defendant. Now, that's sad it really is, and you should think about her when you're assessing your punishment. Let's think about her and think about the other children that live in this community that are subjected to this type of conduct by others and use your common sense.' [Emphasis added]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Borjan v. State · Borjan v. State“negates any inference that she sought to deprive the owner of his property. The effect of these actions would be to facilitate the return of the property if the police did not find them to be evidence of a crime. We hold that Art. 38.23 ... does not require the exclusion of this evidence. 53”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cobb v. State“A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenschke 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.