State v. Spivey’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2013
21 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 Ham v. South Carolina · Aldridge v. United States · Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County · Ross v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Ross
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he exercise of [the trial justice's] discretion does not mean that [the trial justice] must permit every question * * * that can be devised by an ingenious attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kaba
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.