Sperry v. McKune’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.3d 1268 · 2006
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2025
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · Harris v. New York
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An ordinary person could discern a difference between a killing that is committed intentionally and a killing that is committed intentionally and with premeditation, if premeditation involves thinking a matter over beforehand and intentionally involves purposeful, willful and non-accidental conduct. Thinking something 'over' indicates a quantum of reflection—premeditation—absent from the deliberative process necessary to act intentionally—'to act purposefully, willfully and not by accident.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Stanley
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.