State v. Spruell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2012
18 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 Chapman v. State of California · Fahy v. Connecticut · State v. MacOn · State v. Gross · State v. Winter
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose of the [ Evid. R. ] 8 inquiry `is not to determine the credibility of the out-of-court statements' but `whether the prior statement was made or signed under circumstances establishing sufficient reliability that the factfinder may fairly consider it as substantive evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he ultimate inquiry [must] focus[ ] on the possibility of injustice `sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt as to whether the error led the jury to a result it otherwise might not have reached.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the error was of such a nature as to have been clearly capable of producing an unjust result.”
2 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.