Shepler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Chandler v. State (1981), Griffin v. State (1981)
40 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 North Carolina v. Butler · Rummel v. Estelle · Taylor v. United States · Bonanno v. United States · Tate 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of . . . bifurcated proceeding[s] is to prevent the jury from being tainted by knowledge of the defendant's prior felony convictions, in determining his guilt or innocence of the charge before them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As to his contention that a separate jury should have been ordered to hear the habitual criminal charge, it is without merit. The trial court complied in all respects with the bifurcated trial requirements of Lawrence v. State, (1972) 259 Ind. 306 , 286 N.E.2d 830 . The jury heard direct evidence of the appellant’s prior crimes in the habitual criminal proceeding and was bound to adjudicate him solely on the basis of that evidence. We fail to see how any undue prejudice could have arisen in the habitual criminal trial from the use of evidence of prior crimes to impeach appellant at the principal trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. State“for purposes of reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment of conviction, we confine our consideration to the trial record”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson 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.