State v. Spillers’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Low (2008), 2013 UT App 213 - State v. Campos (2013)
25 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 State v. Bishop · State v. Hamilton · State v. Baker · State v. Howell · State v. Hansen
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.
“entitled to have the jury instructed on the law applicable to its theory of the case if there is any reasonable basis in the evidence to justify it”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Low“an error that is sufficiently inconsequential that there is no reasonable likelihood that it affected the outcome of the proceedings”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether a jury instruction on a lesser included offense is appropriate presents a question of law,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zaragoza · State v. Ruiz
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.