7 Mich. App. 187 - People v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “§ 239. Trial of defendant in prison garb. Since the defendant, pending and during his trial, is still presumed innocent, he is entitled to be brought before the court with the appearance, dignity, and self-respect of a free and innocent man, except as the necessary safety and decorum of the court may otherwise require. He is therefore entitled to wear civilian clothes rather than prison clothing at his trial. It is improper to bring him into the presence of the jury which is to try him, or the venire from which his trial jury will be drawn, clothed as a convict, (footnotes omitted)”

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

2. “It is easily deduced that defense counsel in making objection when he did, permitted the jury to observe defendant for a second time in jail garb. People v. Shaw, supra, 384 .”

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