State v. Kirk Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Arnold (2010), State v. Passmore (2010)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Idaho v. Wright · State v. Mizenko · State v. Matz
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no indication, however, that the Legislature intended to deputize this litany of professionals and individuals into law enforcement, and we refuse to attach that significance to the duty to report.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Phillips“was or was not includable in that grouping called pedophiles and thus whether he could or could not exhibit behaviors of members or non-members of that class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Walker“the testimony was distinctly not about [Spencer's] mental condition but about his not being a member of a diagnostic group-pedophiles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Walker
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.