Stokes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 2 Cal. 2d 527 - People v. Miller (1935), State v. Mandel (1954)
75 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the design of a person to commit crime is clearly shown, slight acts done in furtherance of this design will constitute an attempt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell 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.