Shute v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Cunningham v. State · Ex Parte Granger · Mello v. State · Shute v. State · Shute v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should apply only when the case is tried before a jury, since there are no jury instructions in a bench trial. In a bench trial, the "judgment that the trial court should have rendered" can always be a conviction for a lesser-included offense because the trial court is authorized to find the defendant guilty of any lesser offense for which the State provides the required proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“[i]n a bench trial, the prosecution is not required to submit a lesser included offense charge to the trial judge” and that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.