Sheppard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1985
2 district · 21 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 McNeill v. State · Ragland v. State · Collins v. State · Keiser v. Smith · Brunson 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A husband who finds his wife in act of adultery and moved by passion naturally engendered, immediately kills the wife, is not guilty of ‘murder’ but of ‘manslaughter’ only, but'if there is time for husband’s passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself before he kills the wife, or if he kills her immediately but is not moved by heat of passion but by prior malice, hatred, or desire to avenge the wrong, the husband is guilty of murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. State““Cooling time is a question of law. Keiser v. Smith, 71 Ala. 481 , 46 Am.Rep. 342 ; Ragland v. State, 125 Ala. 12 , 27 So. 983 , and authorities there cited. See also Brunson v. State, 212 Ala. 571 , 103 So. 664 ; Logan v. State, 155 Ala. 85 , 46 So. 480 ; Crowder v. State, 18 Ala.App. 632 , 93 So. 338 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The general and widely prevailing rule is that, in the absence of statute, bias or prejudice on the part of a grand juror furnishes no ground of attack on the indictment.””
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.