State v. Shetsky’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1997
20 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 Quercia v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Starr v. United States · Hickory v. United States · Egan v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No intelligent juryman could misunderstand this language, delivered as it was in an atmosphere of judicial indignation, as other than a demand that the jury bring in a verdict of guilty in order that ‘law and order’ should ‘be victorious in this contest.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rasmussen“The influence of the trial judge on the jury is necessarily and properly of great weight and [the] lightest word or intimation is received with deference, and may prove controlling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“witness [is] thoroughly discredited, and any value that [the witness's] testimony might otherwise have had [is] greatly impaired, if not wholly destroyed * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.