Stouffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Maynard v. Cartwright (1988), Victor Wayne Hooks v. Ron Ward (1999)
21 federal appellate · 82 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Zant v. Stephens · Godfrey v. Georgia · Barclay v. Florida · Cartwright v. Maynard
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase ‘especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel’ is directed to those crimes where the death of the victim was preceded by torture of the victim or serious physical abuse.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“no reason to believe from the evidence that [the victim] was conscious after”
3 later decisions 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.