Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1982
4 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 Ballard v. United States · Rabinowitz v. United States · Watts v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person shall in any manner threaten with bodily harm, intimidate or coerce another person to prevent said person from lawfully trading, or carrying on business, including buying or selling, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year in the county jail or be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“words or acts calculated and intended to cause an ordinarily prudent and firm person to fear an injury to his person or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson“threatening with the intent or purpose to intimidate”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson
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.