State v. Szemple’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably State v. Hoffman (1997), Bergen Commercial Bank v. Sisler (1999)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 100 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 · Trammel v. United States · United States v. Bryan · Wolfle v. United States · Blau v. United States
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a clergyman, minister or other person or practitioner authorized to perform similar functions, of any religion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`contravene the fundamental principle that the public ... has a right to every man's evidence.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person shall disclose any communication made in confidence between such person and his or her spouse ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Terry · State v. Mauti
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.