State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably The People v. Fox (1925), State v. Dixson (1927)
40 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 People v. Fowler · Owens v. State · State v. Reinhart · State v. Guie
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statement by the accused, direct or implied, of facts pertinent to the issue, and tending, in connection with proof of other facts, to prove his guilt, but of itself is insufficient to authorize a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thompson“A confession is a direct acknowledgment of guilt on the part of the accused... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thompson
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.