Stepney v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. California · Doyle v. Ohio · Brown v. Allen
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Well that doesn't make sense to me, that what I know about the victim, she was a liquor drinker and seeing as she had a bottle of liquor there, why would she want a beer?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stepney v. Lopes“Well, after she had finished her drink she wanted a beer, so I went out to my truck and I got her a can of beer,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stepney v. Lopes“clearly took the stand to present his own case and defense and to refute and deny the evidence against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stepney v. Lopes
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.