Shaughnessy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1991
16 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 Winston v. United States · People v. Suesser · MacIas v. State · People v. Coen · People v. Aro
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The determination of the punishment when an accused pleads guilty of first degree murder is committed by the Legislature of this state to the trial court, and to that court only, * * *.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * No cause shall be reversed for technical error in pleadings or proceedings when upon the whole case it shall appear that substantial justice'has been done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.