State v. Spillman’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1967
17 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 Brown v. . Volkening · Chase v. People · State v. Lewis · State v. Ellis · State v. Potter
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any prosecution for the violation of any provision of this act, it shall be competent to prove that any person, . . . had in his possession any intoxicating liquor other than alcohol, and such possession and proof thereof shall be prima facie evidence that said liquor was so held and kept for the purposes of unlawful sale or disposition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lesh““Actual possession exists when the property is in the individual occupancy of a party or his agent and is expressed frequently as ‘possession in fact’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnston
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.