350 So. 2d 603 - State v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 399 So. 2d 551 - State v. Spell (1981), State v. Vaughn (1979)
50 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Neil v. Biggers · United States v. Agurs · Stovall v. Denno · Kirby v. Illinois
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following matters and no others shall be considered on appeal: (1) An error designated in the assignment of errors; and (2) An error that is discoverable by a mere inspection of the pleadings and proceedings and without inspection of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The party appealing shall designate, in writing, those errors which are to be urged on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.