Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2005
17 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 Alfaro v. State · Phillips v. State · Lewis v. Indiana · Guenther v. State · Weekly 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A peremptory challenge is one exercised without reason stated, without inquiry, and without being subject to the court's control. No party is required to explain its reasons for the exercise of such challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dora v. State“It is for the trial judge to determine the sentencing weight to be given the aggravating or mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State“[(oluly one valid aggravating factor need be shown to sustain the enkancement of a presumptive sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nixon v. State
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.