Stevenson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

cited by 13 later decisions

states following

July 2015

most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2015

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 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · Gray v. State · 557 So. 2d 542 - Griffin v. State · 660 So. 2d 961 - Hiter 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[t]he jury must be left to resolve matters regarding the weight and credibility of the evidence. Once a case is submitted to the fact finder, any factual disputes are properly resolved by the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 856 So. 2d 389 - Jones v. State · 914 So. 2d 817 - Holloway v. State
“`discretion of the trial judge runs toward almost unlimited admissibility regardless of the gruesomeness, repetitiveness, and the extenuation of probative value.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Keller v. State · 913 So. 2d 913 - Le v. State
“(2) The killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner shall be capital murder in the following cases: (a) Murder which is perpetrated by killing a peace officer or fireman while such officer or fireman is acting in his official capacity or by reason of an act performed in his official capacity, and with knowledge that the victim was a peace officer or fireman....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Franklin Fitzpatrick v. State of Mississippi

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.