Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently January 1965 · most notably Mattfeld v. Nester (1948), Eacock v. State (1907)
99 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 Deal v. State · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Falvey · Hauk v. State · Goodwin v. State · Epps 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that the person injured, whether living or dead, is not a party to the prosecution, and his admissions and statements are not evidence either for or against the accused, unless of the res gestae, dying declarations, or threats, but are hearsay, the same as those of any other third person.” Shields v. The State (1897), 149 Ind. 395, 403 , 49 N. E. 351 ; See also 16 C. J. 639, § 1269.”
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.