State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
4
states following
August 2008
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Mazurie · Scher v. United States · State v. Webb · State v. Johnson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the privilege is the furtherance and protection of the public interest in effective law enforcement. The privilege recognizes the obligation of citizens to communicate their knowledge of the commission of crimes to law-enforcement officials and, by preserving their anonymity, encourages them to perform that obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vanmanivong
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.