State v. Battles’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably State v. Bayless (1951), State v. Stuart (1970)
64 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 State v. Nasello · State v. Dowling · State v. Tippett · State v. Kissinger · State v. Bowdry
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All of the cases where we have held that it was error to prove that the arrested person remained silent were cases where the persons were asked about the alleged crime or where some one made a statement about the alleged crime in the presence of the accused. In the case at bar, the appellant was not asked about the crime [n]or was anything said about the crime in his presence by any one. The only thing asked him was whether he would lie still, to which he answered in the affirmative, and [he] made no other statement. Certainly, appellant could not be prejudiced under these circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Howell“The law in this state is that `Silence of the accused when not under arrest, and in circumstances such that only a guilty person would have remained silent, may be shown. After arrest or while in custody the evidence is inadmissible because he is under no duty to speak. State v. Bowdry, 346 Mo. 1090, 1096 , 145 S.W.2d 127, 129 (5). The same is true of undenied accusations made by third parties in his presence. State v. Kissinger, 343 Mo. 781, 786 , 123 S.W.2d 81, 83 (4).' State v. Dowling, 348 Mo. 589 , 154 S.W.2d 749 , loc. cit. 755.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen“[T]he appellant was not asked about the crime or was anything said about the crime in his presence by anyone. The only thing asked him was whether he would lie still, to which he answered in the affirmative, and made no other statement. Certainly, appellant could not be prejudiced under these circumstances. Suppose that when a defendant was arrested he asked the arresting officer to telephone his wife and tell her he was arrested. Certainly this fact would not prejudice the arrested person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green
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.