Sharkey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2018
5 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wright v. State · Lawrence v. State · Reinbold v. State · Dorsey 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the jury believed this denial, it could conclude that he killed Summers recklessly, or that she died as a result of battery. Therefore, there is a serious evidentiary dispute about the intent element, and in view of this dispute, the jury could conclude that either Involun tary Manslaughter or Reckless Homicide, and not the greater offenses of Murder or Voluntary Manslaughter, were committed. If the instructions on Involuntary Manslaughter and Reckless Homicide had been tendered, the trial court would have committed reversible error in refusing to give them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. State“it was required to give the instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher 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.