People v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
1 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 76 Ill. 2d 19 - People v. Baptist (1979), 133 Ill. 2d 226 - People v. Barrow (1989)
1 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Moore v. United States · People v. Jennings · People v. . Harris · People v. Lloyd · Dunn 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the days of Moses to the present time it has been the law that a person who fabricates, suppresses or destroys evidence must take the consequences of the honest indignation which his conduct naturally excites.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence that the accused has attempted to destroy evidence against himself is always admissible for the purpose of showing consciousness of guilt ***.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.