Shelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 573 So. 2d 284 - Holton v. State · 24 So. 3d 17 - Hayward v. State · K.N.M. v. State · German 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although remorse and an admission of guilt may be grounds for mitigation of a sentence, the opposite is not true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“recognition that it lacked any grounds to mitigate [the] sentence,”
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.