Shearer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State (1984), 697 So. 2d 777 - Coleman v. State (1997)
81 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 391 So. 2d 601 - Bullock v. State · 413 So. 2d 1007 - Edwards v. State · 278 So. 2d 384 - Glass v. State · Stokes v. State · Evans v. State
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless the trial judge's discretion is so abused as to be prejudicial to the accused, this Court will not reverse his ruling.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burt v. State · Sewell v. State“photographs of the victim should not ordinarily be admitted into evidence where the killing is not contradicted or denied and the corpus delicti and the identity of the deceased have been established.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“in their often over-zealous efforts to obtain a criminal conviction, seek the introduction of inordinately gruesome photographs where the photographs have little, if any, probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNeal 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.