554 So. 2d 887 - Shell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Shell v. Mississippi (1990), 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991)
99 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Maynard v. Cartwright · Trammel v. United States
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the mitigating circumstances portion of the jury instructions”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[The prosecutor] may comment upon any facts introduced into evidence. He may draw whatever deductions seem to him proper from these facts, so long as he does not use violent and abusive language, and even in many cases invectives may be justified and even called for, as pointed out by Chief Justice Whitfield in Gray v. State, 90 Miss. 235 , 43 So. 289 [1907].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he word heinous means extremely wicked or shockingly evil; atrocious means outrageously wicked and vile; and cruel means designed to inflict a high degree of pain with indifference to, or even enjoyment of the suffering of others.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Dixon · Conner 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.