People v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000 · most notably Estelle v. Williams (1976), United States v. Lamont S. Carter, United States of America v. Jerome R. Patterson, United States of America v. Jerome R. Patterson (1975)
14 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the defendant, pending and during the trial, is still presumed innocent, he is entitled to be brought before the court with the appearance, dignity, and self-respect of a free and innocent man, except as the necessary safety and decorum of the court may other wise require. He is therefore entitled to wear civilian clothes rather than prison clothing at his trial. It is improper to bring him into the presence of the jury which is to try him, or the venire from which his trial jury will be drawn, clothed as a convict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State“It is inherently unfair to try a defendant for crime while garbed in his jail uniform . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estelle v. Williams
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.