People v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2020
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Neder v. United States · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles
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.
“A constitutional error is harmless if `[it is] clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Babcock“Harmless error analysis applies to claims concerning Confrontation Clause errors. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Babcock
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.