17 Ariz. App. 162 - State v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
4
states following
April 1981
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. California · Harris v. New York · Grunewald v. United States · Spevack v. Klein · Ruffalo v. Mahoning County Bar Ass'n
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For comment on the refusal to testify is a remnant of the ‘inquisitorial system of criminal justice’ . which the Fifth Amendment outlaws. It is a penalty imposed by courts for exercising a constitutional privilege. It cuts down on the privilege by making its assertion costly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Silverberg
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.