Shields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 583 · 1927
Citation profile
266 federal appellate · 3 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 457 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Illinois v. Allen (1970), United States v. Swift & Co. (1932)
266 federal appellate · 3 district · 110 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · Bucklin v. United States · Bucklin 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 457 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be present in person or by counsel at all proceedings from the time the jury is impaneled until it is discharged after rendering the verdict.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a jury has retired to consider of its verdict, and supplementary instructions are required, either because asked for by the jury or for other reasons, they ought to be given either in the presence of counsel or after notice and an opportunity to be present; and written instructions ought not to be sent to the jury without notice to counsel and an opportunity to object.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] court can not be asked by counsel to take a step in a case and later be convicted of error, because it has complied with such request.”
1 later decision 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.