State v. Hoyt’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Herring v. New York (1975), State v. Miller (1987)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this ruling the court violated no rule of evidence. The question was not whether the husband or wife could have been compelled to produce this evidence, but whether, when the letters fell into the hands of a third person, the sacred shield of privilege went with them. We think not. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 254a. The fact that the communications in this case were written places them on no higher ground than if they wore merely oral. And, as to the latter, it is well settled that conversations between husband and wife are not privileged so as to prevent a third person, who overheard them, from testifying. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lloyd v. Pennie
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.