Spraggins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2019
4 federal appellate · 17 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 · Poultryland Inc. v. Anderson · Henderson v. State · Fugitt v. State · Spraggins v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I charge you that should you find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the crime, this court will maintain custody and control of the defendant until the court is satisfied that the defendant is not a danger to himself or to others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · Guilford v. State“is to ensure that the jury understands that a verdict of guilty but mentally ill does not mean that the defendant will be released.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“The Code mandates that the charge set forth in OCGA § 17-7-131 (b) (3) [(A) and] (B) `shall' be given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore 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.