Spillane v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1995
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for plaintiff in error contend that the court erred in permitting counsel for plaintiff to inquire on voir dire as to each juror’s interest in any insurance company by the usual permitted questions along that line, because counsel for Spillane had advised the court prior to the examination of the jury that Spillane carried no insurance and any reference to an insurance company would be prejudicial to Spillane. The court followed the proper and approved course in the examination as permitted here, and it must be assumed that the inquiry was made to obtain information concerning a juror’s interest, and not for the purpose of informing the jury that there was an insurance carrier.... ” 259 P.2d at 1082 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnette v. Doyle
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.