State v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2017
22 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 Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States · United States v. Ellison · United States v. Dukes · Holmes v. United States · United States v. Jones
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We decline to adopt ... an expansive definition of "newly discovered evidence." Although we are aware other courts have taken a different view, it has always been our position that the kind of evidence contemplated by the rule is solely that which bears on the guilt or innocence of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“made within 10 days after verdict or finding of guilty or within such further time as the court may fix during the 10-day period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a motion is not timely filed, the trial court lacks the power to consider it.”
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.