State v. Levi’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2018
21 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 United States v. Marion · Pereira v. United States · Blau v. United States · State v. Bryson · State v. Perez
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a) Criminal proceedings. In a criminal proceeding, the spouse of the accused has a privilege not to testify against the accused. This privilege may be claimed only by the spouse who is called to testify. b) Confidential marital communications; all proceedings . (1) Definition. A "confidential marital communication" is a private communication between spouses that is not intended for disclosure to any other person. (2) Either party to a confidential marital communication has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing that communication . (c) Exceptions. There is no privilege under this rule (1) in proceedings in which one spouse is charged with a crime against the person or property of (A) the other, (B) a child of either, (C) a third person residing in the household of either, or (D) a third person committed in the course of committing a crime against any of these, or (2) as to matters occurring prior to the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the presumption may be overcome by proof of facts showing they were not intended to be confidential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]arital communications are presumed to be confidential,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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