State v. Shehan’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Kingsley (1993), State v. Ninci (1997)
66 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 State v. Hunter · State v. Keeler · State v. Falke · State v. Sterling · State v. Pearson
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a criminal action, a trial court must instruct the jury on the law applicable to the theories of all parties where there is supporting evidence. The defendant is entitled to an instruction on his or her theory of the case even though the evidence is slight and supported only by defendant's own testimony. However, the trial court's duty to instruct arises only when there is sufficient supporting evidence from which a rational factfinder could find that the events occurred consistent with the defendant's theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law is well-settled in this state that in a crime of violence which results in death, photographs which serve to illustrate the nature and extent of the wounds inflicted are admissible when they corroborate the testimony of witnesses or are relevant to the testimony of a pathologist as to the cause of death, even though they may appear gruesome.” State v. Sheehan, 242 Kan. 127 , Syl. ¶ 8, 744 P.2d 824 (1987).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ninci · State v. Kingsley““To require the giving of an instruction on voluntary intoxication there must be some evidence of intoxication upon which a jury might find that a defendant’s mental faculties were impaired to the extent that he was incapable of forming the necessary specific intent required to commit the crime.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.