Shaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Farley v. State (1995), Brooks v. State (1979)
24 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 Johnson v. State · Bell v. State · Monroe v. State · Crowder v. State · Dickey 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Had the objection been stated with the added specificity, at least part of the testimony could have been given in admissible form by deleting the quotation of the threat allegedly made against the deceased, since the evidence was relevant to Ray's state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. Boney“its prejudicial impact substantially outweighed its probative value”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farley v. State
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.