Sheppard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1979
5 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 Green v. Hoefler · 81 Okla. Crim. 13 - Salisbury v. State · 82 Okla. Crim. 402 - Davidson v. State · 79 Okla. Crim. 71 - Johnson 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The habitual criminal statute (21 O.S.1951 § 51) may be used in a prosecution for robbery with firearms. “The only effect of prosecuting an offender for robbery with a dangerous weapon after a former conviction of a felony is to change the minimum punishment which may be assessed upon conviction from five years in the penitentiary to ten years in the penitentiary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bow v. State““Under habitual criminal statute, 21 O.S.1941 § 51, where the subsequent conviction is for the crime of robbery with firearms, the minimum punishment which may be assessed upon conviction is any term in the State Penitentiary not less than 10 years.””
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.