Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Posey v. State (1998), Stephens v. State (1991)
29 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 Blockburger v. United States · Burks v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Greene v. Massey · Aguilar 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t behooves [the prosecutor] to request a charge which correctly allocates the burden placed on him by law ... And if the record reflects the prosecutor has pursued this course to protect his lawful obligations, but the trial court has nevertheless refused the ... submission of the requested charge, and the evidence is found insufficient to support the verdict because of the trial court’s errors in this regard, those reviewable rulings of the trial court found erroneous by the appellate court constitute “trial error,” and the State if free to pursue another prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if: (2)acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense; [[Image here]]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. State · Nickerson v. State“A trial court’s charge explains to the jury under what circumstances and of what offense it is authorized to convict. The sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction must therefore be viewed in light of the charge the jury was given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Jiminez 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.