Shelley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 2010
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Arizona v. Fulminante · Purkett v. Elem · Johnson v. California · 921 So. 2d 292 - Spicer 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurors are representatives of the community in one sense, but they are not to vote in a representative capacity. Each juror is to apply the law to the evidence and vote accordingly. The issue which each juror must resolve is not whether or not he or she wishes to “send a message” but whether or not he or she believes that the evidence showed the defendant to be guilty of the crime charged. The jury is an arm of the State but it is not an arm of the prosecution. The State includes both the prosecution and the accused. The function of the jury is to weigh the evidence and determine the facts. When the prosecution wishes to send a message they should employ Western Union. Mississippi jurors are not messenger boys.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State“We did our part, and now it is time for you to do your part. It’s time for you to help us get drugs off our street, to help us get these drugs off the street by getting the criminals that sell the drugs off the streets. We must all do our part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris 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.