Howard v. Sheriff’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2021
11 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 Application of Beasley · Ex Parte Wheeler · State v. Plunkett · Johnson v. State · State v. White
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“victim by two stopped cars on the same road and around the same time as the taxi driver, while a man ran up to grab either the victim or the woman, after which, the victim shoved the man. Id. However, the church organist did not identify the woman as the defendant or the man as the defendant's husband. Id. We held that the district court improperly denied bail because the evidence did not tend to show the elements of first-degree murder but instead showed only that the defendant scuffled with the victim around the time the victim was fatally shot. Id. Therefore, any”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“connection between [the scuffle] and the shooting [was] left wholly to conjecture.”
1 later decision 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.