State v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State v. Johnson (1992), Mobbs v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc. (1990)
43 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 Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner · United States v. Singer · State v. Bishop · Poulin v. Ford Motor Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to grant defendant’s motion to compel discovery of the relevant diary entries. If the court concludes the diary entries contained information that probably would have changed the outcome of the case, the court must order a new trial upon motion of defense counsel. If not, or if the nondisclosure was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, the court may reinstate defendant’s convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw
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.