State v. Shelton’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2025
24 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 Costello v. United States · United States v. Ohio Power Co. · Louis Weber v. United States · Moog Industries, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Cella v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal may be taken to this court from a final judgment entered by the superior court or a judge thereof in any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, except that the state shall have a right to appeal in criminal cases only to test the sufficiency of the indictment or information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kott v. State · State v. Smith“[w]hen an indictment is dismissed for any reason... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kott v. State · State v. Michel“There is a presumption that [the grand jury] * * * acted on sufficient evidence, and Shelton has not sustained his burden of showing that it did not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merrill 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.