State v. Brunelle’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Mullin v. Phelps (1994), Baker v. State (1999)
2 district · 45 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · Mapp v. Ohio · Schmerber v. State of California · Griffin v. California
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s final interpreter of the Vermont Constitution, this Court has final say on what process is due in any given situation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Porter · Parker v. Gorczyk“The State argues that the defendant may not raise due process or self-incrimination issues on appeal in the absence of any testimony or offers of proof at trial, citing Luce v. United States, 469 U.S. 38 (1984). The State's reliance on Luce is misplaced. In Luce , the United States Supreme Court distinguished the facts in that case, where a federal court's preliminary ruling on a question not reaching constitutional dimensions was held not to be reviewable, from its earlier cases, Brooks v. Tennessee, 406 U.S. 605 (1972), and New Jersey v. Portash, 440 U.S. 450 (1979), where the Court reviewed constitutional challenges to state court rulings which acted to discourage defendants from testifying. Luce, 469 U.S. at 42-43 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a limited exception to State v. Badger, 141 Vt. 430, 452-53 , 450 A.2d 336, 349 (1982), which held that `[e]vidence obtained in violation of the Vermont Constitution, or as a result of a violation, cannot be admitted at trial as a matter of state law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Peterson
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.