State v. Saylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The accused “must articulate his desire to have counsel present sufficiently clearly that a reasonable [police] officer ... would understand the statement to be a request for an attorney.” If the suspect fails to make such an unambiguous statement, police may continue to question him without clarifying any equivocal requests for counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Downey

2. “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused ... shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rogers

3. “'Normally, a mistrial should be declared only if there is a manifest necessity for such action.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of Tennessee v. Henry Lee Jones