Shanahan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2001
15 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 89 Okla. Crim. 294 - Ladd v. State · Holloway v. Hall · 74 Okla. Crim. 64 - Young v. State · 71 Okla. Crim. 99 - Snider v. State · 13 Okla. Crim. 737 - Cameron 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases where the jury reaches a verdict of guilty and cannot agree upon the punishment and so reports to the court, Title 22 O.S.A. § 927 becomes applicable and the Court shall require the jury to deliberate further after a further instruction that if they are unable to agree to so state in their verdict and leave the punishment to be assessed by the court.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Scott v. State““ ‘Should you find from the evidence under instructions and beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant is guilty, so state in your verdict, you may then assess the punishment therefore within the provisions of the law set out herein or you may leave the punishment to be assessed by the court.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Ray v. State““In all cases of a verdict of conviction for any offense against any of the laws of the State of Oklahoma the jury may, and shall upon the request of the defendant assess and declare the punishment in their verdict within the limitations fixed by law, and the court shall render a judgment according to such verdict, except as hereinafter provided. “Where the jury find a verdict of guilty, and fail to agree on the punishment to be inflicted, or do not declare such punishment by their verdict, the court shall assess and declare the punishment and render the judgment accordingly.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Ethridge 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.