71 Okla. Crim. 430 - Sparks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1989
12 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 People v. Tarbox · 71 Okla. Crim. 353 - Ex Parte Clyde Meadows · 71 Okla. Crim. 268 - Ex Parte Gilbert · People v. Wallace · 21 Okla. Crim. 1 - Little 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defendant upon arraignment pleads to the merits and enters on the trial, he waives the right to preliminary examination, or, if one was held, any irregularities therein.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blake v. State · Davis v. Reynolds
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.