State v. Leecy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2010
19 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 G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States · State v. Spreigl · State v. Jones · State v. Brouillette · State v. Cote
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A husband cannot be examined for or against his wife without her consent, nor a wife for or against her husband without his consent, nor can either, during the marriage or afterwards, without the consent of the other, be examined as to any communication made by one to the other during the marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] civil action or proceeding by one [spouse] against the other, * * ⅜ a criminal action or proceeding for a crime committed by one [spouse] against the other or against a child of either [spouse] * * * a criminal action or proceeding in which one [spouse] is charged with homicide or an attempt to commit homicide and the date of the marriage of the defendant is subsequent to the date of the offense, * * * an action or proceeding for nonsupport, neglect, dependency, or termination of parental rights. Minn.Stat. § 595.02, subd. 1(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gianakos“This statute, which was not superseded by any rule, provides two different privileges: the privilege to prevent a spouse from testifying at any time, during the marriage or after, concerning confidential interspousal communications made during the course of the marriage and the privilege to prevent a spouse from testifying against one during the course of the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gerring
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.