Stouffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Stouffer v. State (1987), Fox v. State (1989)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Wainwright v. Witt
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the trial court that Velva Ivens’[s] knowledge was too distant to establish a then current pattern of Ivens’[s] conduct or to be relevant, or to qualify as impeachment evidence.... The trial judge may properly limit collateral matters which may be the subject of impeachment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Had the defense made appellant's character an issue as such, the State could have presented significant evidence of appellant's connection to organized crime and of his prior violent conduct.”
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.