Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 337th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Almanza v. State · Hernandez v. State · Ex Parte Duffy
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even had defense counsel properly objected to the two prior convictions about which he complains on appeal and the two convictions excluded from evidence, the jury still would have had before them five prior convictions. Based upon this record, we are unable to say that there is a reasonable probability that the jury’s decision as to punishment would have been any different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Esteves v. State
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.