Delisi v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 684 So. 2d 181 - Ruth v. Department of Legal Affairs (1996), DeLisi v. Bankers Ins. Co. (1983)
24 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 Boyd v. United States · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · United States Marcus v. Hess · Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois · United States v. Wheeler
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first involves the absolute prohibition of compelling a defendant in a criminal case to testify against himself. The second pertains to the right of a witness in a proceeding other than a criminal prosecution in which he is a defendant to refuse to respond to interrogation on the grounds that his answers might tend to incriminate him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“forming a link in the chain of evidence which might lead to criminal prosecution.”
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.