State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 101 Wis. 2d 413 - Manson v. State (1981), State v. Dugan (1980)
43 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 Long v. State · MacIas v. State · State v. Parker · Moore v. State · Blackburn 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the victim places his property in the hands of the robber through force or fear without raising a protesting voice or hand, such act is not of his own volition, but at the will of the robber. . It would be a distorted concept to say that a man might be pricked with hot irons or put in a state of terror by direct or indirect threats, gestures, and statements and conclude that he had not been robbed merely because he offered his personal property to gain surcease from pain or his release. If such were the law all robbers could resort to such conduct and wait for the victim to give without making a demand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnette v. State““ * * *. This court has on many occasions committed itself to the proposition that in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction the evidence on review is to be viewed in the light most favorable to the state. (Citing cases.) Not only must the evidence be viewed in its strongest light in favor of the verdict, but all reasonable inferences therefrom must be taken in most unfavorable manner to defendant. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied.) State v. Stephens, 66 Ariz. 219 , 186 P.2d 346, 352 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Milton“If the fact attended with circumstances of terror, such threatening word or gesture as in common experience is likely to create an apprehension of danger and induce [another] to part with his property for the safety of his person, it is robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore
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.