Dean v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Turner v. Commonwealth (1980), 27 Va. App. 554 - Harris v. Commonwealth (1998)
30 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. California · Grunewald v. United States · Spevack v. Klein · Johnson v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We also interpret Section 8 of the Virginia Constitution, which provides that no person shall ‘be compelled in any criminal proceeding to give evidence against himself’, as precluding the use of an assertion of such privilege to discredit or convict the person who asserted it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he value of constitutional privileges is largely destroyed if persons can be penalized from relying on them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.