State v. Corby’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Griffin v. California (1965), Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott (1966)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 70 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 Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Adamson v. People of State of California · 27 Cal. 2d 478 - People v. Adamson · Hickory v. United States · George Foltis, Inc. v. City of New York
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legal impropriety affecting the substantial rights of the defendant and sufficiently grievous to justify notice by the reviewing court and to convince the court that of itself the error possessed a clear capacity to bring about an unjust result.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * A defendant in a criminal proceeding may testify in his own behalf if he so desires, although he cannot be compelled to be a witness against himself, but when the accused is upon trial and the evidence tends to establish facts which if true would be conclusive of his guilt of the charge against him, and he can disprove them by his own oath as a witness, if the facts be not true, then by his silence the jury may infer that he could not truthfully deny the charge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a practical matter, such a case is more supposititious than real, and care must be exercised so as not to deny the State the advantage of the charge where in justice it may be given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.