State v. Sierra’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Robinson (1993), State v. Figueroa (1995)
114 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 Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Boyd 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The error made arises from confusing the privilege of a witness not to give incriminating answers with the right of the accused not to take the stand in a criminal prosecution against him. Both come within the protection of the clause of the 5th Amendment which provides: “No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” The plain difference between the privilege of witness and accused is that the latter may not be required to take the stand at all.”
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.