Stumes v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1150 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2002 · most notably Solem v. Stumes (1984), Stumes v. Solem (1985)
17 federal appellate · 7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Wade · Edwards v. Arizona
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I would rather not talk about it any more at this time until I talk to my attorney, and after that I'll give you a full statement in regards to her death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Solem v. Stumes“discharging Stumes from custody unless the State commences proceedings to try him again within such reasonable time as the District Court may fix.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Norman Stumes“only after he had been questioned intermittently [about the crime] during the trip.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.