State v. . Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1969
13 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testimony as to the fitting of the shoe to tracks found where the prisoner had been seen was admissible, as it was a circumstance tending to show identity. . . . This is `real' evidence, as called by the civilians, and its value as proof is greater or less, according to the circumstances. . . . It is some evidence tending to identify the prisoner as the perpetrator of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . McLeod
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.