Cruz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2015
17 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 Carnley v. Cochran · Culombe v. Connecticut · Leyra v. Denno · West v. Solito · Paprskar v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is clear from the language of Article 38.10 that the privilege protected is personal to the client and cannot be waived solely by the attorney. The application of that view to this case is consistent with the chief purpose of the privilege, which is the promotion of communication between attorney and client unrestrained by fear that these confidences may later be revealed. * * * Nor can it be said that appellant by signing the statement after it was given to the police, had waived a privilege so vitally important to him in this case. Waiver will not be `lightly inferred' and this act alone, done by appellant at the behest of attorney Hill, fails to show either an intention by appellant to waive his rights or a significant awareness of the nature and significance of his conduct."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burnett v. State · Carmona v. State“... By giving the statement to the police, [Cruz’s] attorney ... disclosed the contents of communications confidentially made to him by appellant during the existence of their attorney-client relationship. These communications did not relate to the commission of future crimes and the client did not knowingly consent to disclosure; the attorney was not excused from his duty to preserve the confidences of his client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carmona v. State“[T]his knowledge was gained after the statement had already been prepared, and appellant’s silent, unavoidable acquiescence to [the attorney’s] decision will not support a legal conclusion that this conduct was a knowing consent to waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuller 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.