State v. Witchey’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2019
12 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 United States v. Nixon · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Pereira v. United States · Trammel v. United States · Lustig v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A communication is confidential if it is made privately by any person to his or her spouse during their marriage and is not intended for disclosure to any other person.” . Ample precedent from recent history demonstrates the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hart · State v. Gallipo“The purpose of the marital communication privilege is many: the protection of the marital relationship; to protect marital privacy; and to insure the ability of one spouse to communicate privately with the other_ It can even be ar- gued that the rule is a logical extension to the constitutional prohibition against self-incrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gallipo“There is no privilege under this section in a proceeding in which one spouse is charged with a crime against the person or property of: (1) The other; (2) A child of either; (3) A person residing in the household of either; or (4) A third person committed in the course of committing a crime against any of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vargas
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.