Spranger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Bivins v. State (1995), Spranger v. State (1995)
35 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Sandstrom v. Montana · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stand more as guideposts for our appellate review than as immovable pillars supporting a sentence decision.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dye v. State · Cooper v. State“Defendant next contends that the trial judge disregarded the mitigating evidence entirely or, if he did not consider the evidence, did not accord it sufficient weight. To the contrary, the trial court's sentencing memorandum, attached as an appendix to this opinion, demonstrates the court did consider the mitigating evidence, but found the mitigating factors did mot outweigh the aggravating factors. (Citations omitted, emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Spranger v. State“[P]hotographs are admissible if they provide relevant evidence and their relevance is not outweighed by their tendency to inflame and impassion the jury against the defendant. The question necessarily becomes one of balancing these concerns, and thus the trial court has broad discretion in determining whether such photographs should be admitted in a particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowery v. State
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.