Sheppard v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 10 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004 · most notably Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966), Davis v. Balkcom, Warden (1962)
44 federal appellate · 10 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. · Daniman v. Board of Education
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such a denial of his petition in no wise implies that this Court approves the decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio. It means and means only that for one reason or another this case did not commend itself to at least four members of the Court as falling within those considerations which should lead this Court to exercise its discretion in reviewing a lower court’s decision. * * * ” Sheppard v. Ohio, 352 U.S. 910, 911 , 77 S.Ct. 118, 119 , 1 L.Ed.2d 119 (1956).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.