Shepard v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.2d 293 · 1958
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016
13 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 472 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · United States v. Rosenberg · Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an anomaly that a judicial system which has developed so scrupulous a concern for the protection of a criminal defendant throughout every other stage of the proceedings against him should have so neglected this most important dimension of fundamental justice.” Shepard v. United States (C. A. 6, 1958), 257 F. 2d 293, 294 .”
3 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.