Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 80 So. 3d 999 - Del Valle v. State (2011), 15 So. 3d 672 - Odom v. State (2009)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Bearden v. Georgia · 458 So. 2d 269 - Florida Bar v. Johnson · Doherty v. State · 519 So. 2d 81 - Hamrick v. State · Brushingham 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before a person on probation can be imprisoned for failing to make restitution, there must be a determination that that person has, or has had, the ability to pay but has willfully refused to do so.”
12 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.