Spradlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lowery v. State (1994), Guyton v. State (2002)
3 federal appellate · 114 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 Zickefoose v. State · Smith v. State · Heald v. State · Abdul-Wadood v. State · Santana 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Henceforth, we hold that an instruction which purports to set forth the elements which must be proven in order to convict of the crime of attempted murder must inform the jury that the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, with intent to kill the victim, engaged in conduct which was a substantial step toward such killing.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The crime of Burglary is defined by Statute as follows: A person who breaks and enters the building or structure of another person, with intent to commit a felony in i, commits burglary, a Class C felony. To convict the defendant, the State must have proved each of the following elements: The defendant: 1. - knowingly ovr intentionally 2. broke and entered 3. the building or structure of Fair Muffler 4. with intent to commit a felony, theft, in it. If the State failed to prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt you should find the defendant not guilty. If the State did prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant guilty of burglary a Class C felony."”
20 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Garth v. Davis · Guyton v. State“[a] person attempts to commit a crime when, acting with the culpability required for commission of the crime, the person engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step toward commission of the crime....”
15 later decisions 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.