State v. Castelli’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Rogers v. Richmond (1961), People v. Aranda (1965)
68 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 State v. Willis · State v. Brauneis · State v. Coffee · State v. Saxon · State v. Yanz
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [the defendant's written confessions] were harmful, it was not because any rule of procedure was violated, but because the accused had furnished harmful evidence against themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gingles
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.