Shilling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1986
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schmerber v. State of California · Cardwell v. State · 160 Tex. Crim. 423 - Bumpass 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The State cannot avail itself of the silence or refusal of an accused prisoner as a circumstance tending to establish his guilt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dudley v. State · Sutton 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.