State v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Carter (1989), State v. Bishop (1988)
32 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Bumper v. North Carolina
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) A defendant may be convicted of an offense included in the offense charged but may not be convicted of both the offense charged and the included offense. An offense is so included when: (a) It is established by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to establish the commission of the offense charged....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[njo additional facts or separate elements are required to prove aggravated robbery after first degree murder based on the predicate offense of aggravated robbery is shown”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bond · State v. Wood“[OJther crimes or bad acts may be admitted “when relevant to prove some material fact including absence of mistake or accident, motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge or identity.” While evidence of other bad acts is inadmissible to show the general disposition of the defendant, such evidence, when relevant and competent, is admissible to prove a material fact. State v. Tanner, 675 P.2d 539, 546 (Utah 1983).”
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.