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← 49 WVA 582 - State v. Sheppard

State v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis

1901

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
4
states following
April 1986
most recently cited

60 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 1986 · most notably 158 W. Va. 647 - State Ex Rel. Grob v. Blair (1975), 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley (1966)

60 state decisions

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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 Commonwealth v. Costley · State v. Cain · Kerr v. Lunsford · State v. Greer · 26 W. Va. 116 - State v. Flanagan

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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A person indicted for felony shall -be personally present during the trial therefor”.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.