State v. Sheffield’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably State v. Ortega (1991), State v. Black (1991)
1 federal appellate · 104 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“—his trial Court erred in failing to grant a new trial because of newly dis covered evidence which, if known, allegedly would have affected the verdict of the jury; —his trial Court erred in instructing his trial counsel not to refer to a “deal” in reference to the testimony of Mr. Han-ing; —his trial Court erred in limiting his trial counsel’s questioning of Mr. Haning about the possible “agreement” with the prosecution in exchange for his testimony; —his trial Court erred in not allowing his trial counsel to question Mr. Haning about exchanging his testimony for a favorable consideration of parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"1 Pratere testified that he did not know Ruby Marlar nor where she lived on January 1, 1980, but at the time he testified he knew where she lived and placed the scene which he described as near the corner of Whittier and Addison and between his house and Ruby Marlar's.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think it inappropriate to introduce the rigidity that inevitably accompanies the mandated use of express guidelines for the exercise of judicial discretion involving the weighing and balancing of elusive concepts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiggins
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.