Silva v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2020
8 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Oregon v. Elstad · Douglas v. Alabama · California v. Beheler · McNeil v. Wisconsin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Silva was questioned for approximately one to two hours and was allowed to speak with his sister when he requested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a lie that relates to a suspect's connection to the crime is the least likely to render a confession involuntary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not automatically mean that he was in custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.