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← 137 N.J.L. 6 - State v. Anderson

State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

1948

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 1961
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Parker v. State · State v. Boccadoro · State v. Friedman · State v. Bien

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * if facts are testified to which concern the acts of the defendant which he could by his oath deny, his failure to testify in his own behalf raises a strong presumption that he cannot truthfully deny them.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The baleful effect of a defendant's failure to testify is measured by the proofs which go unanswered by the defendant under oath rather than by the mere failure per se to testify,”
    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.