State v. Dravenstott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “After stating that a suspect’s status of being ‘in custody1 at a particular moment depends on the totality of the circumstances, the Missouri Supreme Court in Werner outlined six factors, in addition to the purpose, place, and length of the interrogation, that bear upon the determination of whether a suspect is ‘in custody’: (1) whether the suspect was informed at the time of questioning that the questioning was voluntary, that the suspect was free to leave or request the officers to do so, or that the suspect was not under arrest; (2) whether the suspect possessed unrestrained freedom of movement during questioning; (3) whether the suspect initiated contact with authorities or voluntarily acquiesced to official requests to answer questions; (4) whether strong arm tactics or deceptive stratagems were employed during questioning; (5) whether the atmosphere was police dominated; (6) whether the suspect was placed under arrest at the termination of questioning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wilson

2. “When the same conduct of a person may establish the commission of more than one offense he may be prosecuted for each such offense. He may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if [[Image here]] (4) The offense is defined as a continuing course of conduct and the person’s course of conduct was uninterrupted, unless the law provides that specific peri ods of such conduct constitute separate offenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. M.L.S.

3. “When the same conduct of a person may establish the commission of more than one offense he may be prosecuted for each such offense. He may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if .... (4) The offense is defined as a continuing course of conduct and the person's course of conduct was uninterrupted, unless the law provides that specific periods of such conduct constitute separate offenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. MLS