State v. Valeriano’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Leecan (1986), Valeriano v. Bronson (1988)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Malloy v. Hogan · Hoffman v. United States · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Cardillo v. United States · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The privilege afforded [by the fifth amendment] not only extends to answers that would in themselves support a conviction ... but likewise embraces those which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute the claimant for a ... crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Waiver can be inferred only 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 fifth amendment 's privilege against self-incrimination. State v. Altrui , 188 Conn. 161 , 170 , 448 A.2d 837 (1982), quoting Klein v. Harris , 667 F.2d 274 , 287 (2d Cir. 1981). Neither of these conditions [is] fulfilled in this case. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contains no mens rea requirement beyond that of an intention to commit the underlying felony upon which the felony murder charge is predicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flanders v. Meachum
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.