State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Maine v. Thibodeau (1986), State v. Rucker (2003)
2 federal appellate · 87 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Berkemer v. McCarty · Malloy v. Hogan · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) If it appears to any court of this state in a criminal proceeding that the defendant was over the age of sixteen years and under the age of eighteen years at the time the offense charged was alleged to have been committed, . . . that court may forthwith transfer the proceeding to the juvenile court under the authority of this chapter ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lafayette · State v. Smail“[b]y custodial interrogation, we mean questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom in any significant way.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Maine v. Thibodeau · Matter of EAH“the only relevant inquiry is how a reasonable man in the suspect's position would have understood his situation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Maine v. Thibodeau · State v. Oney
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.