State v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2025
8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Illinois v. Allen · Harris v. New York · Lewis v. United States · Ferguson v. Georgia
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant has no more right to take the stand and 'testify in a way degrading to the judicial system than he has to rob a bank or to assault a constable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LOPEZ 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.