State v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1999
14 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. Mullen · State v. Harmon · State v. Jensen · Larkin v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · State v. Ostrand
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we are committed to the objective test of entrapment, State v. Mullen, 216 N.W.2d 375 (Iowa 1974), this does not render the circumstances surrounding the defendant’s participation in the drug transaction irrelevant... The conduct of the government official or agent must be evaluated in its context, not in a vacuum. Under this principle the state had a right to test defendant’s claim of unfamiliarity and uncertainty concerning the transaction by cross-examination of the kind involved here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Agent
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.