Shealy v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kiriakides v. United Artists Communications, Inc. · Noisette v. Ismail · Mid-State Auto Auction of Lexington, Inc. v. Altman · Continental Western Insurance Co. v. Klug · Wade v. Berkeley County
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not attest to facts they perceived, but merely restate the perceptions of the vehicle's operator.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The attending circumstances along with direct testimony may be taken into account by the jury in arriving at its decision as any fact in issue may be established by circumstantial evidence, if the circumstances, which must themselves be proven lead to the conclusion with reasonable certainty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. Doe · Enos v. Doe“A FALSE STATEMENT CONCERNING THE FACTS CONTAINED IN THIS AFFIDAVIT MAY SUBJECT THE PERSON MAKING THE FALSE STATEMENT TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES AS PROVIDED BY LAW.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. Doe · Enos v. Doe
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.