57 Wash. App. 383 - State v. Spruell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 64 Wash. App. 410 - State v. Walton (1992), 64 Wash. App. 641 - State v. Huff (1992)
43 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 88 Wash. 2d 899 - State v. Partin · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 77 Wash. 2d 27 - State v. Callahan · United States v. Landry · 25 Wash. App. 590 - State v. Theroff
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of insufficiency admits the truth of the State's evidence and all inferences that reasonably can be drawn therefrom.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“fingerprint on a dish which appeared to have contained cocaine immediately prior to the forced entry of the police.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“mere proximity to the drugs and evidence of momentary handling is not enough to support a finding of constructive possession.”
2 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.