State v. Spulak’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2008
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Washington v. Texas · Williams v. Florida · Barefoot v. Estelle · Baldwin v. New York Williams · Chambers v. Texas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The form of an oath required to make a person a qualified witness has been most often considered in the context of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion. That context is present in this case. It has been held, “The court abused its discretion in insisting that Gordon use either the word ‘swear’ or ‘affirm’ in light of Gordon’s sincere religious objections.” Gordon v. Idaho, supra [ 778 F.2d 1397 ] at 1400 [(9th Cir.1985)].... The trial court erred in refusing to permit the tendered witnesses to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowlin
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.