Sheppard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably Hawkins v. State (1983), Moody v. State (1992)
31 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 Boyde v. State · White v. State · Aranda v. State · Young v. State · Mistrot 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“9.31. (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b) of this section, a person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful force. 9.32. A person is justified in using deadly force against another; (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.31 of this code; (2) if a reasonable person in the actor’s situation would not have retreated; and (3) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cleveland v. State“Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 3rd day of April, 1981, in Harris County, Texas, the defendant, Kenneth Bradley More, while in the course of committing or attempting to commit the robbery of Lawrence Steven Pearson, did intentionally cause the death of Lawrence Steven Pearson by choking or strangling the said Lawrence Steven Pearson with his hands, his arms, or a cord, then you will find the defendant guilty of capital murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. More 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.