Sparks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · State v. Stonaker · Van Alstine 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevail on this claim, he must show that the failure to make the request was a deficiency in his attorney’s performance and that, but for the lack of the instruction, there is a reasonable probability that the jury would have found him guilty of the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jeffrey 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.