Spurgeon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1975 · most notably Brown v. State (1939), Bailey v. State (1942)
26 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 Dewein v. State · Jackson v. State · Williams v. State · Tillman v. State · Maxey 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, the court refused to exclude this confession from the jury, but submitted it to the jury upon instructions as favorable as the defendant could ask for, and left it to the jury to determine whether or not the confession was free and voluntary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanderlin v. State
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.