State v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “does not waive his right to be free from multiple prosecutions, where prosecution moved to join charges on the day of trial and defendant was foreed to choose between”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Marshall

2. “'Such an election would usually either constitute a waiver of Brown rights to a single trial, or waiver of Fitzgerald rights to separate trials.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Warren

3. “may place the prosecutor (and sometimes the defendant) in a dilemma.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Warren