State v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2020
13 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 Hamling v. United States · United States v. Powell · Dunn v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · Standefer v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(there must be additional error beyond a showing of inconsistency because appellate courts 'have always resisted inquiring into the jury's thought processes and deliberations'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“testimony showed that Stewart carried the only knife capable of causing the one stab wound described as fatal by the medical examiner”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is simply whether there is sufficient evidence to support the guilty verdicts”
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.