Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 142nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Daniels v. State · Rasmussen v. State · Lafoon v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘minor theoretical breaches in the chain of custody’ will not affect admissibility in absence of 'affirmative evidence of tampering or commingling.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed 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.