State v. Sturtevant’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1985 · most notably Rochin v. People of California (1952), Breithaupt v. Abram (1957)
29 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 Weeks v. United States · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado · Holt v. United States · State v. Flynn · State of Arizona v. Duguid
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitutional provision invoked appears with varying phraseology in our Federal Constitution and those of most of the States ; but because of their common historical origin, the variations are not considered to alter the essential meaning. * * * Whatever their form, the purpose of the provisions may be regarded as uniform; to protect an accused ‘from any disclosure sought by legal process against him as a witness.’ * * * It is sufficient for our purposes to recognize that the authorities establish the privilege to be one against testimonial compulsion only, and that it is inapplicable to cases such as this where the evidence is real rather than testimonial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alexander
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.