Shelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. “"If the reviewing officer has, in fact, investigated the charges, and if the evidence developed as a result of the investigation resulted in the disciplinary actions being brought against the appellant, as is alleged, the reviewing officer could hardly be impartial."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coleman v. State · Patterson v. State

2. ““[I]f the sole reason for not making the witness available to the appellant at the disciplinary proceeding was that he had been transferred to another facility, that reason would be insufficient to meet the due process requirements of Wolff v. McDonnell. See Thompson v. State, 548 So.2d 650 (Ala.Cr.App.1989).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parker v. State