Stanfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Lyles v. State (1993), Story v. Collins (1991)
33 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 Patterson v. New York · Bearden v. Georgia · Jones v. State · Curtis v. State · Ex Parte Wilson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a probation revocation hearing at which it is alleged only that the probationer violated the conditions of probation by failing to pay compensation paid to appointed counsel, probation fees, court costs, restitution, or reparations, the inability of the probationer to pay as ordered by the court is an affirmative defense to revocation, which the probationer must prove by a preponderance of evidence (emphasis ours).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Reynaga v. State · Friedl v. State“[i]n a probation revocation hearing at which it is alleged that the probationer violated the conditions of probation by failing to pay compensation ..., the inability of the probationer to pay as ordered by the court is an affirmative defense to revocation, which the probationer must prove by a preponderance of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is axiomatic that facts and circumstances attending a given act or omission may reveal intent. One who has the ability to pay that which he is required to pay but does not, without more, leaves a fact finder with a strong inference that his failure is intentional. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wike v. State · Washington 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.