Commonwealth v. Shelley’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3281
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Beck v. Alabama · Schad v. Arizona · Keeble v. United States · Spaziano v. Florida
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mitigates concern that a jury would return a guilty verdict for the greater crime, even if they believe the prosecution has not proved each element, because the jury believe that the defendant's conduct warrants some form of punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defendant is entitled to an instruction on a lesser included offense of the charged crime, when the facts could support the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“gives the jury a third option, beyond acquittal or conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.