State v. Gianakos’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trammel v. United States · Perry v. Louisiana · United States v. Nordby · Lewis v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · United States of America v. Calvin Wayne Buckland
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A husband cannot be examined for or against his wife without her consent, nor a wife for or against her husband without his consent, nor can either, during the marriage or afterwards, without the consent of the other, be examined as to any communication made by one to the other during the marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zais · State v. Palubicki“[in] no case [has a Minnesota court] ruled that a marriage is not worthy of the protection of the marital privilege, a statutory rule engrained in [Minnesota's] jurisprudence well over a century ago”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the privilege to prevent one spouse from testifying against the other during their marriage” (the marital testimony privilege); and (2)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zais
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.