State v. Shelton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The only question considered by the court in the Shelton case was that of jurisdiction of the appeal from a judgment overruling a motion to set aside forfeiture of a bail bond, and the court there properly held that an appeal in a proceeding to forfeit a bail bond lies to the court having appellate jurisdiction of the criminal case. The authorities cited in that case, some of which we have cited here, recognize that such a proceeding is intrinsically civil, but that it is viewed in a different way in determining the question of jurisdiction and is treated as a criminal proceeding solely to determine jurisdiction.” (Emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hudson