California v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
278 federal appellate · 44 district · 357 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 920 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971), Kolender v. Lawson (1983)
278 federal appellate · 44 district · 357 state decisions — followed in 39 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Boyd v. United States · Malloy v. Hogan
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 920 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]ension between the State's demand for disclosures and the protection of the right against self-incrimination”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage“an area permeated with criminal statutes.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“highly selective group inherently suspect of criminal activities,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.