People v. Shell’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably In Re Discipline of Lerner (2008), People v. Devorss (2011)
45 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Parker v. Levy · Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn. · International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with sufficient clarity, prohibit the conduct against which it is enforced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it does not provide fair warning of the conduct prohibited or if its standards are so ill-defined as to create a danger of arbitrary and capricious enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Arias · People v. Komar“[w]e interpret rules of procedure consistent with principals [sic] of statutory construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.