State v. G. Spottedbear’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Whitlow v. State · State v. Derbyshire · State v. Bower
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acts arbitrarily without the employment of conscientious judgrnent or exceeds the bounds of reason, resulting in substantial injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. M. Gossard
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.