Sparrenberger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably 19 Cal. 2d 319 - Greenberg v. Superior Court (1942), Fikes v. State (1955)
1 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Mayor of Wetumpka v. Winter · State v. Bullock · State v. Clarkson · Russell v. State · Favers v. Glass
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On a motion to quasb or to strike from tbe files, addressed to tbe court with reasonable diligence after tbe facts bave been discovered, supported by evidence leaving no reasonable doubt on tbe mind of tbe court that tbe indictment was not tbe finding of 12 of tbe grand jury, or that it was found without tbe evidence of witnesses before them, or legal documentary evidence, truth and justice, tbe preservation of tbe verity and dignity of its own records, tbe protection of tbe citizen and constitutional guaranty demand that tbe court should expunge tbe spurious paper. It is not an accusation tbe citizen should be held to answer; it is without warrant of law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The grand jury is the great inquest between the government and the citizen. It is of the highest importance that this institution be preserved in its purity, and that no citizen be tried until he has been regularly accused by the proper tribunal."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The statute intends the prohibition of worldly avocations on the Sabbath. It is the keeping open the store for buying- and selling, or for receiving and storing on that day, which is declared criminal.””
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.