Sprague v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Stephan v. State (1985), National Bank of Alaska v. State, Department of Revenue (1982)
49 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Morrissey v. Brewer · Brady v. United States · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Malloy v. Hogan
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It] must be free and voluntary; that is, [it] must not be extracted by any sort of threats or violence, nor obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight, nor by the exertion of any improper influence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marcy v. State · S. B. v. State“[T]he age, mentality and prior criminal experience of the accused; the length, intensity and frequency of interrogation; the existence of physical deprivation or mistreatment; and the existence of threat or inducement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marcy v. State · Sovalik v. State“If we were to uphold the probation condition in this case, in effect, we would be opening up virtually all classes of offenders to warrantless searches on less than probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Edison v. State · Dayton 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.