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← 768 N.W.2d 104 - State v. Spence

State v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
February 2022
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. United States · American Family Insurance Group v. Schroedl · State v. Webb · State v. Griller · Roby 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whenever possible we avoid statutory constructions that render words superfluous”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “person who has a legal right to exercise control over the building in question.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “person 'in lawful possession' under Minn. Stat. § 609.581 , subd. 4(a),”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.