Spicer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Fuller v. State (1959), Brothers v. State (1938)
122 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 Alexander v. United States · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Campbell v. State · Carlton v. People · McAdory 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Presumptions or inferences may be, and often are, founded on circumstances which, of themselves, independent of the accusation, would not be ground of crimination. It is largely a question of fact, rather than a question of law, for the determination of the jury, whether particular conduct, or particular expressions of the accused, refer to a criminal offense, and spring from his consciousness of guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an inducement, or that which leads or tempts the mind to do or commit the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowden 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.