State v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Waller v. Georgia (1984), Weaver v. Massachusetts (2017)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Rodriguez v. New York · Weatherford v. Bursey · Balistrieri v. United States · Levine v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because demonstration of prejudice in this kind of case is a practical impossibility, prejudice must necessarily be implied”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial ...” . Like paragraph 53e of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, 1969 (Revised edition), R.C.M. 806 of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, 1984, sets forth the principle that court-martial proceedings will”
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.