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State v. Altrui’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

117
cited by 117 later decisions
3
states following
July 2013
most recently cited

117 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Whelan (1986), State v. Robinson (1993)

117 state decisions

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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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Ross

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

  1. “[A] court should only infer a waiver of the fifth amendment's privilege against self-incrimination from a witness' prior statements if (1) the witness' prior statements have created a significant likelihood that the finder of fact will be left with and prone to rely on a distorted view of the truth, and (2) the witness had reason to know that his prior statements would be interpreted as a waiver of the [privilege] . . . .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Murphy v. Nykaza, No. 320696 (May 17, 1995) · 2 Conn. App. 496 - Demartin v. Manson
  2. “conclude that under the peculiar circumstances of this case permitting Solevo to exercise his fifth amendment privilege left the jury with a distorted view of the truth,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 2 Conn. App. 496 - Demartin v. Manson
  3. “`[t]hough justice may be blind it is not stupid.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Mason

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.