State v. Deatore’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably New Jersey v. Portash (1979), State v. Marshall (1991)
2 district · 170 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 · Boyd v. United States
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant is under no obligation to volunteer to the authorities at the first opportunity the exculpatory story he later tells at his trial and cannot be penalized directly or indirectly if he does not. [ State v. Deatore, supra, 70 N.J. at 115 , 358 A. 2d 163 .]”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“renders the desired inference more probable than it would be without the evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]t was in fact not a true case of silence in police custody as to an exculpatory story, but rather one of conduct, albeit non-action, after the charged crime inconsistent with defendant's [testimony] at trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.