State v. Schreiber’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Kinsella v. Kinsella (1997), State v. Szemple (1994)
34 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. Nixon · Whalen v. Roe · State v. Tischio · State v. MacUk · State v. Briley
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts here and elsewhere have long construed them narrowly in an attempt to promote, at once, the goals of the privilege and the truthseeking role of the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Of privileges, it has been noted that `their effect ... is clearly inhibitive; rather than facilitating the illumination of truth, they shut out the light.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a civil action or in a prosecution for a crime or violation of the disorderly persons law or for an act of juvenile delinquency,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.