State v. Shon’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Fair (1965), State v. McNulty (1978)
36 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 Culombe v. Connecticut · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Haynes v. Washington · Rogers v. Richmond · Crooker v. State of California
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * a person who engages with others in the commission of an unlawful act is criminally responsible for everything done by his confederates which follows incidentally in the execution of the common design as one of its probable and natural consequences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cummings““. . .A party may not complain on appeal of error in instructions to the jury which he has invited or agreed to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daellenbach 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.