Jerskey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Lewis (1996), Parkhurst v. State (1981)
32 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California · Ashe v. Swenson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Richter v. State · Irvin v. State““It is because of these ancient tendencies by which men in possession of the powers of government seek, with the weaponry of government, to impose their will upon those whom they govern (or ‘serve’) that the protections embodied in the Federal Fifth Amendment and the Wyoming Constitution, Article 1, Section 11, were needed. “The evil is so often spawned in the name of the law and the pursuit of the public order as expressed by officials who are engaged in doing what is ‘good,’ ‘right,’ ‘fair,’ ‘in the public interest,’ or who are so often ‘just doing their duty.’ However, when public officials adopt their own ideas about morality as standards for adjudicating the righteousness of others — absent the guidelines furnished by the common and statutory law pool of experience contributed to by all civilized people — the ‘good,’ the ‘right,’ and the ‘fair’ become the expedient. The standard for the successful society is then judged according to the end result with precious little attention being paid to the manner by which it is achieved and to how many heads may have fallen into the basket in the process. Government becomes ultra powerful and the citizen is relegated to the least rather than the most important unit of the social order. The fragile cobwebs of human rights become misty visions which tend to blend with the ghosts of some public official’s private opinion of what is ‘good,’ ‘fair,’ ‘right,’ and ‘just’ until they become imperceptible and — at last — are no rights at all”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person shall be compelled to testify against himself in any criminal case, * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tortolito v. State · Irvin v. State
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.