19 Va. App. 586 - Shepperson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2018
19 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Soberon v. United States · McNeil v. Wisconsin · Arizona v. Roberson · Eaton v. Commonwealth
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court’s answer to the jury’s question was erroneous in two respects. First, it was not responsive to the jury’s question. Second, it failed to give a correct answer to the question.”); McLean, 30 Va.App. at 332 , 516 S.E.2d at 721 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact that the jury . . . reached its conclusions [on the weapons sentence] upon the application of an erroneous legal principle invalidates the [sentencing] verdict[].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“give a direct and correct response to an inquiry by the jury and its failure to do so is ground for reversal.”
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.