State v. Shreves’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Rosling (2008), State v. Garrymore (2006)
57 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Griffin v. California · Estelle v. Smith · Mitchell v. United States · State v. Montoya · State v. Lane
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court can consider as a sentencing factor a defendant's lack of remorse as evidence by any admissible statement made by the defendant pre-trial, at trial, or post-trial ... or gleaned, without more, from the manner of the commission of the offense as demonstrated by the evidence at trial or from other competent evidence properly admitted at the sentencing hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burkhart · State v. JC“[A] sentencing court may not draw a negative inference of lack of remorse from the defendant's silence at sentencing where he has maintained, throughout the proceedings, that he did not commit the offense of which he stands convicted i.e., that he is actually innocent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kamana'o · State v. JC“[T]he privilege against self incrimination `does not turn upon the type of proceeding in which its protection is invoked, but [rather] upon the nature of the statement or admission and the exposure which it invites.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mundon · State v. Kamana'o
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.