Shirley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1959
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shirey v. State · Daggs 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" * * * the court by all means, should give an instruction * * * to the effect that defendant could be found guilty either of the principal offense or as a second offender, and the punishment provided by law for each offense should be clearly set forth in the instructions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Skaggs v. State · Jordon 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.