Miranda v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Bush v. Florida (1986), James v. Wilson (2002)
36 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 Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · California v. Ramos · Johnson v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“200.033 Circumstances aggravating first degree murder. The only circumstances by which murder of the first degree may be aggravated are: 3. The murder was committed by a person who knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action which would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person. 8. The murder involved torture, depravity of mind or the mutilation of the victim. 9. The murder was committed upon one or more persons at random and without apparent motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Moran v. State““Hearsay” means a statement offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted unless: 2. The declarant testifies at the trial or hearing and is subject to cross-examination concerning the statement, and the statement is: (a) Inconsistent with his testimony;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. LaPierre v. State
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.