Stafford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2012
2 federal appellate · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 124th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Montgomery v. State · Geesa 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“began a running diatribe in which he said that the officer worked for the CIA and was out to get him, and that he (Stafford) was going to kill [the arresting officer] before you can get me. And while I’m at it, I’m going to kill your wife, I’m going to kill your kids, I’m going to kill your chief. We already have people lined up to take out the city council. And while I’m at it, I’m going to kill all Jews and niggers in the City of Longview.... I’ll calm down once I’ve killed you.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiggins 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.