3 Tenn. Crim. App. 310 - Shelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1999
10 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 Bad Elk v. United States · Jamison v. State · State v. Mobley · Cooper v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Res gestae is from the Latin meaning ‘things done’; and includes the circumstances, facts and declarations incidental to the main fact or transaction, necessary to illustrate its character, and also includes acts, words, and declarations which are so closely connected therewith as to constitute a part of the transaction.” (emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carpenter
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.