State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably State v. Deatore (1976), State v. Mayberry (1968)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Dennis v. United States · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · Bridges v. United States · De Moss v. United States · Arens v. Village of Rogers
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judge Jayne took occasion to point out that generally no inference of guilt should be drawn from the silence of a defendant who is under arrest or in custody. He stressed the fact that `many accused persons deliberately recognize safety in silence and are more interested in protection from eventual prosecution and conviction than in preliminary protestations of innocence'; and he indicated the Appellate Division's approval of the view that the silence of a defendant who is faced with incriminatory accusations while he is under arrest or in custody would be deemed inadmissible as evidence unless the circumstances shown are such that `no explanation of his silence is reasonable other than his acquiescence in the truth of the accusations.' See 44 N.J. Super., at page 259 ; cf. McCormick, supra, pp. 529-531.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such application has recently been brought into serious question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.