Shrum v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Gary Gibson (2001), Bland v. State (2000)
17 federal appellate · 41 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 Strickland v. Washington · Ross v. Oklahoma · Woodcock v. Chemical Bank · Spring Meadows Apartment Complex Ltd. Partnership v. Stallings · Scott v. Rosenberg
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all lesser forms of homicide are necessarily included and instructions on lesser forms of homicide should be administered if they are supported by the evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the trial court must instruct the jury on every degree of homicide where the evidence would permit the jury rationally to find the accused guilty of the lesser offense and acquit him of the greater.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BIVENS v. STATE · Bland v. State“within premeditated murder and therefore a lesser included offense of first degree malice murder. Shrum recognized that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Darks v. Mullin · Darks v. Gibson
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.