State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1991 · most notably Arizona v. Manypenny (1981), State v. Superior Court in and for County of Maricopa (1964)
30 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 Hunt v. Norton · Duncan v. Truman · Vazzano v. Superior Court
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A preliminary hearing, or as otherwise called a preliminary examination, is not a trial, in its ordinary sense, nor is the determination thereof a final judgment. It is simply a course of procedure whereby a possible abuse of power may be prevented, and accused discharged or held to answer, as the facts warrant.’ ” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * If the magistrate’s action in the instant case is contrary to the authority conferred upon him by the Rules of Criminal Procedure and applicable statutes, then no jurisdiction existed to render the particular order, * * * ” 79 Ariz. 300 , 288 P.2d 1078 .”
1 later decision 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.