Spurlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Gregg v. State (1974), Payne v. State (1974)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 Hill v. State · Poultryland Inc. v. Anderson · May v. State · Ledford v. State · Adams v. Payne
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an indictment for robbery, ownership of the property taken may be laid in the person having actual lawful possession of it, although he may be holding it merely as the agent of another, and it is not necessary to set forth in the indictment the fact that the person in whom the ownership is laid is holding it merely as agent of the real owner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gomez v. State · Young v. State“is a per se abuse of discretion for a trial judge to allow a prosecution witness to remain in the courtroom during the trial proceedings.”
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.