Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2020
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall disclose to the district attorney, the counsel for the defendant and the defendant the factual content of the report of the presentence investigation and the recommendations of the division and afford an opportunity to each party to object to factual errors and comment on the recommendations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice v. State“the district judge's sentencing decision manifestly was affected by information contained in the reports.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice 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.