Spence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Allridge v. State (1991), Russeau v. State (2005)
35 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 United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · Pelaes v. United States · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Questions of materiality and relevancy have no effect on what can be preserved for purposes of the appellate record. A relevancy analysis is solely applicable to what is to be admitted into evidence, and when the court excludes evidence, the appellant has an absolute right to place the same “irrelevant” evidence into the record for appellate review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rivera 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.