Spence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2016
21 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brinegar v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · Massiah v. United States · North Carolina v. Butler
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming, arguendo, that [such] comments can be construed as an opinion as to the guilt of the accused, however, appellant’s failure to preserve this issue for appeal makes it unnecessary for us to address the merits of this enumeration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mapp v. State
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.