Shelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2009
12 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 Lollar v. United States · Shelton v. State · Horne 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Horne v. State, 253 Ark. 1096 , 490 S.W. 2d 806 (1973), we held that, due to the many successful attacks that were being made upon our jury selections in post conviction proceedings prior to Acts 1969, No. 568, we could not construe the Act as directory - i.e., the procedure therein outlined is mandatory -'when . the challenge is made at the proper time." [Our emphasis].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beasley 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.