State v. Shippee’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Brillon (2010), State v. Lassiter (2005)
48 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 United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Currier · State v. Winter · State v. Dann · State v. Bissonette
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muhammad · State v. Patten“It is within the prosecutor's discretion to determine which overlapping criminal offenses established by the facts should be charged, and we will not interfere with the exercise of this discretion without a statement by the legislature that such an infringement is intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rooney“there must be some indication-especially in cases like this one where the potential for unfair prejudice is high-that the court actually engaged in the balancing test and exercised its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patten
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.