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← 132 SCT 1181 - Howes v. Fields

Howes v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

227
cited by 227 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
35
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

39 federal appellate · 12 district · 113 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedFields v. Howes (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Williams v. Taylor · Edwards v. Arizona · Berkemer v. McCarty

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

  1. “all of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation.”
    46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a prisoner, unlike a person who has not been convicted and sentenced, knows that the law enforcement officers who question him probably lack the authority to affect the duration of his sentence.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[S]tandard conditions of confinement and associated restrictions on freedom will not necessarily implicate the same interests that the Court sought to protect when it afforded special safeguards to persons subjected to custodial interrogation. Thus, service of a term of imprisonment, without more, is not enough to constitute Miranda custody.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.