Stiles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), Duvall v. Reynolds (1998)
8 federal appellate · 42 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Manson v. Brathwaite · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... You should not let sympathy, sentiment, or prejudice enter into your deliberations, but should discharge your duties as jurors impartially, conscientiously, and faithfully under your oaths and return such verdicts as the evidence warrants when measured by these instructions. (Instruction # 48 First Stage) You are reminded that you shall not allow sympathy, sentiment or prejudice to affect your deliberations, but shall do your duty as jurors impartially and faithfully as you swore you would do. (Instruction # 9 Second Stage) Mitigating circumstances are those which, in fairness and mercy, may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability or blame. The Determination of what are mitigating circumstances is for you as jurors to resolve under the facts and circumstances of this case. (Instruction # 7 Second Stage)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) prior opportunity of the witness to observe the defendant during the alleged criminal act; 2) degree of attention of the witness; 3) accuracy of the witness' prior identification; 4) the witness' level of certainty; and, 5) the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because the instructions and verdict forms in the present case did not require unanimity regarding mitigating circumstances, nor could they reasonably have been interpreted to require such, we hold that the jury was not precluded from considering any of the mitigating evidence proffered by appellant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. State · Bryson 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.