Shelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1999
11 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 Application of Salisbury · Lavender v. McLeod · Harvey v. Raines · Application of Hood
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Writ of habeas corpus cannot be invoked for the purpose of reviewing acts of courts of record, when they act within their jurisdiction, nor can it be invoked for the purpose of correcting irregularities or errors, or as substitute for an appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State““Where inmate of penitentiary wishes-to challenge judgment and sentence pronounced against him, he should attach to his petition for writ of habeas corpus a certified copy of the informa tion, and a certified copy of the judgment and sentence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hobert v. State““Petitioner contends that he was forced to trial with an attorney who lacked in sympathy and interest because of prejudice. This is not a question to be raised on Habeas Corpus * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodwin v. Page
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.