State v. Esperti’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2016
15 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 · Schmerber v. State of California · People v. Sudduth · 200 So. 2d 574 - Jones v. State · Cortes v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant's behavior is circumstantial evidence probative of his consciousness of his guilt, and ultimately guilt itself, only when it can be said that the behavior is `susceptible of no prima facie explanation except consciousness of guilt.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the presence vel non of nitrate, or powder burns, which could indicate whether the defendant had recently fired a gun”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“concerning his acts and conduct surrounding resistance to the administration thereof”
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.