Stamper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2025
21 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Watson · Board of County Commissioners v. Ridenour · Department of Revenue & Taxation v. Irvine · Beard v. Brown
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. Fists or bare hands are not dangerous weapons, per se. State v. Calvin, 209 La. 257 , 24 So.2d 467 (1945); People v. Eaton, 25 A.D.2d 692 , 268 N.Y.S.2d 255 (1966); Bean v. State, 77 Okl.Cr. 73 , 138 P.2d 563 (1943); and People v. Vollmer, 299 N.Y. 347 , 87 N.E.2d 291 (1949). Shoes, per se, are not dangerous weapons. Smith v. State, 79 Okl.Cr. 151 , 152 P.2d 279 (1944); and United States v. Barber, 297 F.Supp. 917 (D.C.Del.1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. State“Before an item can be a deadly weapon, it first must be a weapon. If fists or feet, clad in shoes, boots, or otherwise, are dangerous weapons,2 then almost everyone is continually and constantly armed with a dangerous weapon * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. State
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.