People v. Spriggs’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Chambers v. Mississippi (1973), 1 Cal. 3d 80 - People v. Bradley (1969)
20 federal appellate · 162 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Donnelly v. United States · 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan · 54 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Gould · People v. Kitchens · 24 Cal. 2d 177 - People v. Alcalde
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When hearsay evidence is admitted it is usually because it has a high degree of trustworthiness. [Citations omitted.] Thus, declarations against pecuniary or proprietary interest are admitted because they are unlikely to be false. [Citation omitted.] A declaration against penal interest is no less trustworthy____[A] person’s interest against being criminally implicated gives reasonable assurance of the veracity of his statement made against that interest. Moreover, since the conviction of a crime ordinarily entails economic loss, the traditional concept of a ‘pecuniary interest’ could logically include one’s ‘penal interest.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in the light of the principle that the purpose of all rules of evidence is to aid in arriving at the truth, [and] if it shall appear that any rule tends rather to hinder than to facilitate this result ... it should be abrogated without hesitation.' [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in the light of common law principles and the basic objectives of the statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.