Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2016
4 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 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper v. State · Ruffin v. State · 533 So. 2d 444 - Griffin v. State · 541 So. 2d 1027 - McGowan v. State · United States v. Pitts
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.
“There is no evidence presented that could possibly support Stephens' claim, unless the court stultified itself and took the position that the impeached testimony of (the above-mentioned witness) supported it.”
1 later decision 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.