Stapleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2025
20 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 State v. Hickenbottom · Goodman v. State · Poore v. State · Kennedy v. State · Benson 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether an instruction in favor of an accused should be given, the evidence must be viewed in a light as favorable to him as is justifiable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McInturff v. State“incumbent upon the court to either give the instruction or to otherwise properly instruct upon the accused's theory of the case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eaton v. State“if the instruction, although not entirely correct, is at least sufficient to apprise the court of the theory of defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eaton 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.