State v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1994
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 461 So. 2d 455 - State v. Kennedy
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.
“When a police officer attempted to apprehend Sheppard following the second armed robbery, a scuffle ensued during which the policeman was shot three times and left on the ground crying for help. Sheppard was arrested later at his residence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Sheppard told the probation officer doing the presentence investigation that he (Sheppard) had been smoking PCP cigarettes on the night of the robberies and that he was hallucinating.”
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.