Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2016
20 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 Andrews v. State · Robinson v. State · Brewster v. State · Waage v. State · Ellard 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the defendant in such case consents in ■writing, in open court, to waive the appearance, confrontation, and cross-examination of witnesses, and further consents either to an oral stipulation of the evidence and testimony or to the introduction of testimony by affidavits, written statements of witness, and any other documentary evidence in support of the judgment of the court. Such waiver and consent must be approved by the court in writing, and be filed in the file of the papers of the cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Menefee v. State · Wright v. State“The charges against me allege that in Harris County, Texas, AVERY GUSTA-VTUS BREAUX, JR., hereafter styled the Defendant, on or about FEBRUARY 23,1998, did then and there unlawfully, intentionally, knowingly and recklessly, by driving a motor vehicle in the direction of JOHN UPTON, cause bodily [sic] to JOHN UPTON, hereafter called the Complainant, by striking the Complainant with a deadly weapon, namely, a motor vehicle, while the Complainant was lawfully discharging an official duty, knowing the Complainant was a public servant. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅝ ⅝ I understand the above allegations and I confess that they are true and that the acts alleged above were committed on February 23,1998.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Breaux 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.