State v. Spratt’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Price (1971), State v. Smith (1966)
60 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 Japan-Atlantic & Gulf Freight Conference v. United States · State v. Lawrence · State v. Parker · State v. Grillo · State v. Chase
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the evidence relied on by defendant tends to admit the taking but to deny that it was with felonious intent, it is essential that the court fully define the “felonious intent” contended for by the State and also explain defendant’s theory as to the intent and purpose of the taking, in order that the jury may understandingly decide between the contentions of the State and defendant on that point. In other words, where the evidence is susceptible of conflicting inferences on the question of intent, develops a direct issue on that point and makes intent the battleground of the case, full and explicit instructions on this phase is required. [Citation omitted.] * * * The evidence did not raise a direct issue as to intent. The court told the jury, in effect, that before they could return a verdict of guilty, they must find that defendant attempted to take the property with “intent to rob.” . . . The word “rob” was known to the common law and the expression “intent to rob” is a sufficient definition of “felonious intent” as applied to the robbery statute, in the absence of evidence raising an inference of a different intent or purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“[I]f the defendant armed with a pistol drew it on and pointed it at Mr. Blackmon for the intention and purpose of taking money from his cash register by force and against his will, and if he actually made an overt effort to take money or any part of it, and if in doing so it was by force and against the will of Mr. Blackmon and if his life was in danger or threatened, the crime of attempt to commit robbery under this Statute would have been complete.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“"`[W]here the defense was an alibi and the evidence developed no issue or contention that the taking was under a bona fide claim of right or was without any intent to steal, the instructions may be upheld notwithstanding a failure to charge in specific terms with respect to an intent to steal.' 77 C.J.S. Robbery, § 49, pp. 514, 515. [Citations omitted.]" Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunter
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.