Stephenson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 62 state decisions

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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[AJpplication of this rule is rare and ... the standard to be applied is whether the testimony is so incredibly dubious or inherently improbable that no person could believe it.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fajardo v. State · Govan v. State

2. “a court will impinge on the jury's responsibility to judge the credibility of the witness only when it is confronted with inherently improbable testimony or coerced, equivocal, wholly uncorroborated testimony of incredible dubiosity.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Copeland v. State · Herron v. State

3. “[Flavorable evidence is material, and constitutional error results from its suppression by the government, 'if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowlds v. State · Turney v. State