State v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2007
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. South Carolina · Shafer v. South Carolina · Kelly v. South Carolina · Yarbrough v. Commonwealth · State v. Shafer
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given the United States Supreme Court's decision in Kelly , the better practice is for trial judges to give the capital sentencing jury a parole eligibility charge whether it is requested or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Laney
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.