State v. Spendolini’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably State v. Curcio (1983), State v. Ayala (1992)
53 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 Abney v. United States · Di Bella v. United States · United States v. MacDonald · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · Cogen v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establishes a discretionary pretrial diversionary program in certain criminal cases. It suspends criminal prosecution — subject to [successful participation in the system]. If the defendant satisfactorily completes the [program] he may then apply to the court for dismissal of the charges lodged against him. The main thrust of the statute is suspension of prosecution.”
2 later decisions 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.