Shell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 district · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Hook v. State (1989), Ford v. State (1993)
2 district · 148 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 Screws v. United States · Spies v. United States · Chisley v. State · Brown v. State · Rosenberg 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now the requirement of maliciously and wilfully means either that the defendant specifically intended to cause the destruction and injury to another’s property, or that the act was done without any justification, excuse, or mitigation, in wanton and willful disregard of the plain and strong likelihood of damage that was done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewis v. State“a malicious act is one intended to bring harm to another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.