Shepherd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1985
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 369 So. 2d 943 - David v. State · Cunningham v. State · Fernandez 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We've heard a lot of allegations with respect to a defense and I must confess to you, when I sat down to prepare my closing remarks, I had a lot of difficulty in trying to figure out exactly what the defense was going to be, because, frankly, for my purpose, I haven't heard any.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of being interpreted by the jury as referring to the defendant's failure to testify, we hold that a prosecutorial comment in reference to the defense generally as opposed to the defendant individually cannot be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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