State v. Stefanelli’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Czachor (1980), State v. Hunt (1989)
5 federal appellate · 55 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Allison · Dutton v. Evans
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be `satisfied from the lips of the defendant that he committed the acts which constitute the crime.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“when a guilty plea of a co-defendant is brought to a jury's attention without any guiding instructions as to its use in their deliberations, the potential for misuse is manifest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he traditional view ... that the guilty plea of a co-defendant is inadmissible in the separate trial of another defendant as substantive evidence of the latter's complicity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.