State v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2008
14 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Castor v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · United States v. Fairchild · State v. Baca
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It goes almost without saying that the fact of post-arrest silence could be used by the prosecution to contradict a defendant who testifies to an exculpatory version of events and claims to have told the police the same version upon arrest. In that situation the fact of earlier silence would not be used to impeach the exculpatory story, but rather to challenge the defendant’s testimony as to his behavior following arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gutierrez“[I]t is clear that the prosecution may not use the defendant’s silence at the time of his arrest to impeach an exculpatory story which the defendant presents at trial. The reason is that the “silence is insolubly ambiguous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McGee
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.