State v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1961
8 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 Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co. · Garrett v. Aby · Bach v. State · State v. Morris · Olmstead v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In reason, however, and upon a right use of language, “the distinction between wholesale and retail, in the absence of statutory definitions, should be made to depend not solely on the quantity sold, but also upon the purpose of the sale and the character of the purchaser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It follows that every dealer is a retailer who is not within the definition of wholesaler.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.