Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. State · Futch v. State · Williams v. State · Cox v. Hillyer · Bush v. Chappell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a mere nullity and may be so held in any court when it becomes material to the interest of the parties to consider it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harper 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.