Ex Parte Spring’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Marin v. State (1993), Meshell v. State (1987)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Bush v. State of Texas · Miller v. County of El Paso · Harris County v. Stewart · 143 Tex. Crim. 498 - Ex Parte Carson · 144 Tex. Crim. 247 - Smith 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constitutional attack may not be based on an apprehension of future injury.”); Bush v. Texas, 372 U.S. 586, 590 , 83 S.Ct. 922 , 9 L.Ed.2d 958 (1963) (”
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.