Shaffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Gonzalez v. State (2000), Ward v. State (1975)
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 Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Douglas v. Alabama · Henry v. State of Mississippi · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“former jeopardy need not be specially pled in those instances where the trial court either knows or should know of the former proceeding, such as in those cases where the former jeopardy arose in the same case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State · State v. CJF“[t]he requirement that the defendant present evidence in support of his allegation of former jeopardy serves a legitimate state interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State · State v. CJF“[t]he trial court has no way of knowing that the allegations in the plea are true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State · State v. CJF
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.