State v. Sparrow’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 230 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Blackledge v. Perry (1974), Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (1972)
9 federal appellate · 230 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Petrillo · Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction of Orange Cty. · Mackay v. Nesbett · In Re Burrus
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' When an appeal as of right is taken to the [trial court], in contemplation of law it is as if the case had been brought there originally and there had been no previous trial. The judgment appealed from is completely annulled and is not thereafter available for any purpose.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, a police officer, absent invitation or permission, may not enter a private home to make an arrest or otherwise seize a person unless he first gives notice of his authority and purpose and makes a demand for and is refused entry. Without special or emergency circumstances, an entry by an officer which does not comply with these requirements is illegal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) [provides] such certainty ... as will identify the offense with which the accused is sought to be charged; (2) [protects] the accused from being twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; (3) [enables] the accused to prepare for trial, and (4) [enables] the court, on conviction or plea of nolo contendere or guilty to pronounce sentence according to the rights of the case.””
2 later decisions 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.