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State v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Robinson · United States v. Lazcano-Villalobos · State v. Jennings · State v. Johnson · State v. Colf

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.

  1. “Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “In criminal cases, an appellate court sits to review only errors of law, and it is bound by the trial court's factual findings unless the findings are clearly erroneous.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Once bad act evidence is found admissible under Rule 404(b), the trial court must then conduct the prejudice analysis required by Rule 403, SCRE.”
    1 later decision 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.