Sheppard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2008
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Williams v. State · Martin v. State · Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co. v. Yeates · Ex parte Bonner · Sankey 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If this defendant entered into the conspiracy to murder the deceased, which resulted in the accomplishment of its design, she could not relieve herself of guilt by abandoning the actual attack after taking part in its inception.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The matter of allowing the attorney assisting the solicitor to close the argument, notwithstanding the defendant’s attorney declined to make an argument, was within the discretion of the court, and is not reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Landrum v. State
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.