State v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002), State v. Leach (2004)
142 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schmerber v. State of California · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Doyle v. Ohio · Malloy v. Hogan
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“convinced beyond a reasonable doubt any reasonable jury would reach the same result absent the error.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“`from having to reveal, directly or indirectly, his knowledge of facts relating him to the offense or from having to share his thoughts and beliefs with the Government.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hager · State v. Thomas“An accused’s right to remain silent and to decline to assist the State in the preparation of its criminal case may not be eroded by permitting the State in its case in chief to call to the attention of the trier of fact the accused’s pre-arrest silence to imply guilt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hager · State v. Hager
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.