State v. Stenson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 340 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 343 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Hale (2008), State v. Finch (1999)
2 federal appellate · 340 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Mathews v. Eldridge · Faretta v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Lockett v. Ohio
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 343 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so flagrant and ill-intentioned that it evinces an enduring and resulting prejudice that could not have been neutralized by an admonition to the jury.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Elmore · State v. Moran“is manifestly unreasonable or based upon untenable grounds or reasons.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A description is valid if it is as specific as the circumstances and the nature of the activity, or crime, under investigation permits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scherf · State v. Clark
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.