State v. Steffen’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 574 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 583 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Calhoun (1999), State v. Smith (1997)
3 federal appellate · 574 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · McCleskey v. Zant · Pennsylvania v. Finley · State v. Perry
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 583 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ostconviction review is a narrow remedy, since res judicata bars any claim that was or could have been raised at trial or on direct appeal.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conway · State v. Wimbley“or a second petition or successive petitions for similar relief”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conway · State v. Mobley“[a] criminal conviction rebuts the presumption of innocence, and a criminal no longer has the constitutional right to bail after conviction.”
1 later decision 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.