Berger v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
154 federal appellate · 28 district · 312 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 621 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ohio v. Roberts (1980), Chambers v. Mississippi (1973)
154 federal appellate · 28 district · 312 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 Stovall v. Denno · Pointer v. Texas · Linkletter v. Walker · Barber v. Page · Roberts v. Russell
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 621 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one of the important objects of the right of confrontation, was to guarantee that the fact finder had an adequate opportunity to assess the credibility of witnesses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a significant effect on the `integrity of the fact-finding process'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he absence of a witness from the jurisdiction would not justify the use at trial of preliminary hearing testimony unless the State had made a good-faith effort to secure the witness' presence.”
2 later decisions 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.