Shaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2017
11 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Diaz v. United States · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Milewski v. Ashe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Continued presence not required. The further progress of the trial to and including the return of the verdict shall not be prevented and the defendant shall be considered to have waived the right to be present whenever a defendant, initially present, (1) Is voluntarily absent after the trial has commenced (whether or not the defendant has been informed by the court of the obligation to remain during the trial) ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walls v. State · Bailey v. State“(T)he ancient right of presence is so fundamental as to permit of no judge-made exception based upon the existence or nonexistence of provable prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“so fundamental that it exists unless waived even though no actual prejudice may be provable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.