Shuffield v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

60 state decisions

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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““the number of photographs, the size of the photograph, whether it is in color or black and white, the detail shown in the photograph, whether the photograph is gruesome, whether the body is naked or clothed, and whether the body has been altered since the crime in some way that might enhance the gruesomeness of the photograph to the appellant’s detriment.” /”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Salvador Rodriguez v. State · Ledbetter v. State

2. “Evidence is sufficient to support a capital murder conviction if it shows an intent to obtain or maintain control of property which was formed before or contemporaneously with the murder.”)[Original emphasis omitted]; Alvarado v. State, 912 S.W.2d 199, 207 (Tex.Crim.App. 1995)(”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lightsey Nathan Saul, Jr. v. State

3. “(1) how probative the evidence is; (2) the potential of the evidence to impress the jury in some irrational, but nevertheless indelible way; (3) the time the proponent needs to develop the evidence; and (4) the proponent’s need for the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ledbetter v. State