Shepherd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Chatman v. State (1975), Pinkerton v. State (1972)
64 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 Clark v. United States · United States v. Bob · Beyerline v. State · Seifert v. State · Lamborn 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exeept as otherwise provided by statute, the following persons shall not be required to testify regarding the following communications: [[Image here]] Husband and wife, as to communications made to each other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rode v. State · Kindred v. State“include knowledge communicated by an act, which would not have been done by one spouse in the presence, or within the sight of the other, but for the confidence between them by reason of the marital relation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[in contrast to the slow evolution of the law with regard to privilege in the federal system, Indiana long ago abolished the rule of absolute spousal incompetence in favor of a narrow privilege encompassing only confidential communications and information gained by reason of the marital relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson
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.