State v. Spigarolo’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 265 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Richardson v. United States (1999), Connecticut v. Porter (1997)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 265 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Coy v. Iowa · State v. Evans
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seek to demonstrate or explain in general terms the behavioral characteristics of child abuse victims in disclosing alleged incidents,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“testimony directly concerning the particular victim's credibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his court has on numerous occasions adverted to sources extrinsic to the specific count or information to determine whether the defendant was sufficiently apprised of the offense charged. See, e.g., State v. Frazier , [ 194 Conn. 233 , 237, 478 A.2d 1013 (1984) ] (defendant sufficiently apprised where he had access to state's file, police reports and demonstrative evidence); State v. Beaulieu , 164 Conn. 620 , 626, 325 A.2d 263 (1973) (information supplied by another count, state's attorney and court); see also State v. Moffett , 38 Conn. Supp. 301 , 310, 444 A.2d 239 (1981) (defendant's access to prosecution file).”
1 later decision 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.