United States Shaw v. Robertis’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 1279 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 258 - People v. Henderson (1990), Hennon v. Cooper (1997)
36 federal appellate · 4 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 Chapman v. State of California · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Finch v. Connor · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so egregious that it deprived the defendant of a fair trial, thus making the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Finally they would have you be misled by the police report in this case. You’re not going to get those police reports. They’re hearsay evidence. You can’t have them. If you had them, you would see the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“made his entire trial unfair--sufficiently unfair to make his conviction a deprivation of liberty without due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.