479 So. 2d 106 - State v. Sheperd’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2007
24 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 377 So. 2d 1149 - White v. State · 436 So. 2d 908 - Wilson v. State · Shepherd 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prosecutorial comment in reference to the defense generally as opposed to the defendant cannot be `fairly susceptible' to being interpreted as referring to the defendant's failure to testify.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`fairly susceptible' of being interpreted by the jury as referring to ... defendant's failure to testify... .”
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.