Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Altgilbers (1989), United States v. Whitted (1993)
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Michel v. United States · Hullum v. United States · National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Idaho · Morris v. Gressette
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“embrace[ ] an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nielsen v. State · Montoya v. State“"* * * Society wins not only when the guilty are convicted but when criminal trials are fair; our system of the administration of justice suffers when any accused is treated unfairly. An inscription on the walls of the Department of Justice states the proposition candidly for the federal domain: 'The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts." "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [Fjirst, the declarant's motive in making the statement must be consistent with the purposes of promoting treatment [or diagnosis]; and second, the content of the statement must be such as is reasonably relied on by a physician in treatment or diagnosis.”
4 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.