Silks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Chavez v. State (2009), Smith v. State (1986)
2 district · 111 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 · Rodriquez v. United States · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · United States v. Weston · Schaumberg v. State
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the record does not demonstrate prejudice resulting from consideration of information or accusations founded on facts supported only by impalpable or highly suspect evidence, this court will refrain from interfering with the sentence imposed.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. State · Todd v. State“is privileged to consider facts and circumstances which clearly would not be admissible at trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.