DeShields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Erickson v. Illinois (1988), Campbell v. Wood (1994)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Mapp v. Ohio · Edwards v. Arizona
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Defendant’s Statements; Reports of Examinations and Tests; Defendant’s Grand Jury Testimony. The defendant may serve upon the Attorney General a request to permit the defendant or someone acting in his behalf to inspect and copy or photograph any relevant (1) written or recorded statements or confessions made by the defendant, or a co-defendant (whether or not charged as a principal, accomplice or accessory in the same or in a separate proceeding), or copies thereof, and the substance of any oral statement which the State intends to offer in evidence at the trial made by the defendant whether before or after arrest in response to interrogation by any person then known to the defendant to be a state agent which are known by the Attorney General to be within the possession, cus tody or control of the State, (2) written reports of autopsies, ballistics tests, fingerprint analyses, handwriting analyses, blood, urine and breath tests, and written reports of physical or mental examination of the defendant or the alleged victim by a physician, dentist or psychologist made in connection with the particular case, or copies thereof, which are known by the Attorney General to be within the possession, custody or control of the State, and (3) recorded testimony of the defendant before a grand jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. State“A statute which provides an optional method of death is not ex post facto legislation or an unlawful bill of attainder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punishments inflicted.... 23”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Sanders 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.