Spears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
47
cited by 47 later decisions
14
states following
January 1989
most recently cited
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably Hill v. State (1922), 3 Md. App. 340 - Terrell v. State (1968)
45 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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.