Shargaa v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably 768 So. 2d 1037 - Occhicone v. State (2000), State v. Henderson (1979)
3 federal appellate · 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 Ellis v. State · Robinson v. United States · Mathis v. State · Berkenfield v. Jacobs · 84 So. 2d 42 - Shargaa 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he better practice would be for a prosecuting officer who becomes a witness to withdraw from the actual prosecution of the cause. This is so because a jury is naturally apt to give the testimony of the prosecuting attorney himself much more weight than it would accord to the ordinary witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the practice of acting as [both] prosecutor and witness is not to be approved and should be indulged in only under exceptional circumstances.”
2 later decisions 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.