State v. Saia’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably State v. Williams (1987), Connecticut v. Porter (1997)
85 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 Aguilar v. Texas · United States v. Harris · Cole v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker · Eason v. Dandridge
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“common-law restriction against adverse spousal testimony was founded on the legal unity of the spouses and the CT Page 13253 policy of preventing discord between them. Spitz's Appeal , 56 Conn. 184 , 186 , 14 A. 776 [1886]. The jurisdictions which, like Connecticut, have statutorily limited this restriction on adverse spousal testimony by allowing only the witness spouse to invoke a privilege to refuse to render such testimony have done so apparently on the theory that the witness spouse should be permitted to determine whether the marriage can or should be saved by a refusal to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) a spouse's disqualification as a competent witness, (2) a defendant spouse's privilege against adverse marital testimony, and (3) the privilege of confidential communications between spouses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the husband or wife of a party was disqualified as a witness and prevented from testifying either for or against the party in any case, either civil or criminal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.