People v. Dikeman’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2021
2 district · 18 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 Bowles v. United States · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Lacouture · 74 Wash. 2d 744 - State v. Smith · De Gesualdo v. People
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.
““that the defense may not ask a defense witness questions which it knows the witness will refuse to answer because of a valid claim to a privilege not to testify. We overrule and reject O’Chiato v. People, supra, in this regard. “For many years, it has been the rule of law in Colorado that the prosecution may not call a witness to testify before the jury if it knows that the witness will claim his privilege against self-incrimination. DeGesualdo v. People, 147 Colo. 426 , 364 P.2d 374 , 86 A.L.R.2d 1435 (1961). * * * * “Consistency now requires Colorado to likewise adopt the same rule for the prosecution and for the defense. Identical deception can be introduced into a trial if a defense counsel is allowed to manipulate a witness’ claim of privilege. It is a rudimentary proposition of law that a criminal trial must be a fair trial, not only for a defendant but also for the People.” 192 Colo, at 4, 555 P.2d at 520-521 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Fletcher“[D]eception can be introduced into a trial if a defense counsel is allowed to manipulate a witness' claim of privilege.. . . Neither the prosecution nor the defense therefore has the right to deliberately and unfairly benefit from any speculative inferences the jury might draw simply from a witness' assertions of the privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Thhe exercise of the privilege is not evidence to be used in the case [bly any party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Clark
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.