37 Colo. App. 336 - People v. Sheperd’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Robeson v. State (1979), State v. Anderson (1984)
29 state decisions — followed in 12 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 United States v. Hale · 166 Cal. App. 2d 334 - People v. Hurlburt · People v. Simbolo · People v. Key · Johnson v. People
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Silence, in the form, of failing to appear voluntarily before the police and give a statement, prior to being arrested, is of such little probative value that it should not be introduced to impeach defendant’s trial testimony as to his innocence. . . .” (p. 337.) (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor““ ‘You didn’t go turn yourself into the police to try and straighten the situation — ’ ” (p. 337.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor
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.