State v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995
13 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 Finney 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under ordinary circumstances, in common fairness to a person accused it would be the duty of the state to place at once upon the stand as its own witnesses all those who are present at or actually cognizant of the facts upon which the prosecution is based (see People v. Kenyon, 93 Mich. 19 , 52 N. W. 1033 ); but that rule, in the nature of things, is subject to modification and exception.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bellard“A defendant is entitled at some period of the trial to discredit all witnesses brought against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harrison
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.