Sheldon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
2 federal appellate · 14 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 299th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Johnson v. State · Kitchens 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Questions involving the constitutionality of a statute upon which a defendant's conviction is based should be addressed by appellate courts, even when such issues are raised for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. State“[t]he driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in . . . death . . . [to] immediately stop the vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“gives a person of ordinary intelligence reasonable notice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.