Sheppard v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
909 F.2d 1234 · 1989
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably 10 Cal. 4th 463 - People v. Davis (1995), 33 Cal. 4th 1158 - People v. Cole (2004)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Berger v. United States · Carnegie v. United States
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fundamental right to be clearly informed of the nature and course of the charges in order to permit adequate preparation of a defense.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t no time during pretrial proceedings, opening statements, or the taking of testimony was the concept of felony-murder raised, directly or indirectly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where two theories of culpability are submitted to the jury, one correct and the other incorrect, it is impossible to tell which theory of culpability the jury followed in reaching a general verdict.”
3 later decisions 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.