Wead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
60
cited by 60 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
60 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. California · Montgomery v. State · American Grain Trimmers, Inc. v. Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Ladd v. State · Weatherred 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to constitute a violation of the ... privilege against self-incrimination, the language must be either manifestly intended, or of such a character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the defendant’s failure to testify. The challenged comment must be viewed from the standpoint of the jury and the language must be more than an implied or indirect allusion to defendant’s silence. Further, if the remark called the jury’s attention to the absence of evidence that only the testimony from the appellant could supply, the conviction must be reversed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Longoria v. State · Shea v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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