State v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003 · most notably Reed v. Ross (1984), State v. Hankerson (1975)
71 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Speiser v. Randall · Patterson v. Medberry · State v. Atkinson
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he want of provocation, the absence of any excuse or justification for the shooting, the number of shots fired or attempted to be fired, the fact that defendant ran immediately after the shooting, coupled with the other evidence, permitted a legitimate inference of premeditation and deliberation, and was sufficient to be submitted to the jury on the issue of murder in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failure to sustain defendant's motion for nonsuit, particularly. . .as to the charge of murder in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bock
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.