Aguilar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), State v. Swanigan (2005)
44 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Townsend v. Sain · Colorado v. Connelly · Mincey v. Arizona
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Chief Barela’s interrogation alternated between threatening the defendant with charges in connection with unrelated incidents of vandalism in Dexter and assuring the defendant that a confession to the burglary would be looked upon favorably by all concerned. In the totality of the circumstances, this interrogation technique is preponderant. In comparison with all evidence to the contrary, these implied threats and promises, especially when knowingly made to a defendant with diminished mental capacity, rendered the confession involuntary as a matter of law. See State v. Tindle, 104 N.M. 195 , 718 P.2d 705 (Ct. App. 1986).” 106 N.M. at 800 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Swanigan“we examine the 'totality of the circumstances' surrounding the confession in order to decide the ultimate question of voluntariness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Galindo“must have been freely given and not induced by promise or threat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Galindo
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.