Specht v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Trueblood v. Tinsley · Martinez v. People · Specht v. Tinsley · Warren v. People · Russell v. People
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sentencing under Sex Offenders Act is not cruel and unusual punishment within the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution.” (Syl. f 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. English
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.