Oliver v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably Vogel v. Gruaz (1884), Filarsky v. Delia (2012)
38 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Whiting v. . Barney · Parker v. Carter · Newell v. Downs · Wilkinson v. Arnold · Ammerman v. Crosby
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Public policy requires that a person in making communications to a prosecuting attorney, relative to criminals or persons suspected of being guilty of crime, should be at liberty to make a full statement to him without fear of disclosure.” (Page 141.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michael v. Matson
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.