State v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably State v. Cunningham (2000), State v. Isiah (1989)
72 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 State v. McFerran · State v. Scott · State v. Manlove · State v. Martin · State v. Lopez
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a defendant is convicted of a crime under ... a statute not contained in the Criminal Code, which specifies the penalty to be imposed on conviction, the court must set as a definite term of imprisonment the minimum term prescribed by such statute ... and may impose the fine prescribed by such statute ... for the particular crime for which such person was convicted. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Greyeyes
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.