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← 61 NCAPP 462 - State v. Shields

State v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Thomas v. United States · State v. Bryant · Smith v. AMERICAN RADIATOR & STANDARD SANITARY CORPORATION · State v. Watson

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t is well established that '[t]he law presumes that the jury heeds limiting instructions that the trial judge gives regarding the evidence.'”
    2 later decisions 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.