State v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. (1998), Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc. (1999)
2 district · 137 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1162 · 25 U.S.C. § 1321 · 25 U.S.C. § 1326 · 25 U.S.C. § 1751 (Mashantucket Pequot Indian Claims Settlement Act) · 25 U.S.C. § 1755 · 25 U.S.C. § 1758
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Pierce v. Underwood · McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona · Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc. · United States v. Albertini
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental objective is to ascertain and give effect to the apparent intent of the legislature.”
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.