Sparks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 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 37 Ala. App. 300 - Shiflett v. State · State v. McKeehan · 2 Ariz. App. 510 - State v. Martin · Pickeron v. State of Florida · State v. Pickles
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"However, it is not necessary to state the exact date of the offense if that date is not known; it is acceptable to state that the commission of the crime occurred within set limits if those limits are specifically stated. Overstreet v. Whiddon, 130 Fla. 231 , 177 So. 701 (1937). It is not even essential that the date proved at trial be the date stated in the indictment or information. Hunter v. State, 85 Fla. 91 , 95 So. 115 (1923), and Straughter v. State, 83 Fla. 683 , 92 So. 569 (1922), supra. While the bar against the use of `on or about' continues to be applied within the State (State v. Chapman, 240 So.2d 491 (Fla.App.3d, 1970)), the exceptions have made the ironclad bar meaningless as a protection of the accused, and CrPR, Rule 3.140(d)(3), has erased the common law requirement of a definite date."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause of the availability of a motion for statement of particulars in our discovery proceedings, defendant is no longer in the position of having to prepare a defense just from the four corners of the indictment or information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reason for requiring a definite date is to show that the prosecution is not barred by the statute of limitations.”
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.