State v. Briley’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Carter (1982), State v. Zola (1988)
128 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Funk v. United States · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney · Wyatt v. United States · State v. Coleman · Shores v. United States
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are accepted only because in the particular area concerned, they are regarded as serving a more important public interest than the need for full disclosure.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Szemple · State v. BMH-GT“be construed and applied in a sensible accommodation to the aim of a just result.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Szemple · State v. BMH-GT“The spouse of the accused in a criminal action shall not testify in such action except to prove the fact of marriage unless (a) such spouse and the accused shall both consent, or (b) the accused is charged with an offense against the spouse, a child of the accused or of the spouse, or a child to whom the accused or the spouse stands in the place of a parent, or (c) such spouse is the complainant.”
7 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.