Shepherd v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 1045 · 1970
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Quigg v. Crist (1980), Woratzeck v. Ricketts (1987)
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Larry G. Linebarger v. State of Oklahoma and Ray H. Page, Warden · Arnold Sanchez Fernandez v. John H. Klinger · Schlette v. California · Kenion v. Gill
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.
“unless the error rendered the trial so fundamentally unfair as to deny due process.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark · Grimes v. Hd Wells
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.