Creamer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably State v. Asherman (1984), Olevik v. State (2017)
3 federal appellate · 91 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Kirby v. Illinois · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In each of those cases [involving violation of the right against self-incrimination] the defendant was required to perform some act, drive a truck upon scales, place his foot in a shoe track, etc., and, as emphasized in [Aldrich v. State, 220 Ga. 132, 134 ( 137 SE2d 463 )], the 'doing of an act’ against his will to incriminate himself.” Creamer v. State, 229 Ga. 511, 517 ( 192 SE2d 350 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It has long been held that evidence taken from an accused is admissible in Georgia where not compelled by illegal arrest. Compare Evans v. State, 106 Ga. 519 ( 32 SE2d 659 ), where the evidence was not admissible where compelled during an illegal arrest; [cit.]. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State“[w]hile the language in the United States Constitution has long been construed to be limited to 'testimony' the Georgia Constitution has been construed to limit the [s]tate from forcing the individual to present evidence , oral or real.”
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.