State v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably State v. Gregory (1936), Fisher v. State (1951)
34 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 State v. Stogsdill · State v. Duestrow · State v. Kennedy · State v. Bailey · State v. Scott
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our earlier decisions allowed considerable latitude in impeachment by reputation, but, since the fundamental question is the credibility of the witness, the tendency of more recent cases has been to restrict the inquiry to such traits as truth and veracity, honesty and general morality, State v. Scott, 332 Mo. 255, 266 , 58 S. W. (2d) 275, 280 . It was ruled in State v. Gant (Mo. Sup. Div. 2), 33 S. W. (2d) 970 , 973, that the witness’ reputation for good citizenship can not be gone into, and State v. Baird, 271 Mo. 9, 16 , 195 S. W. 1010, 1013 , expressly decides proof of reputation for ‘law-abidingness’ has no place in the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cameron
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.