Rice v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 747 · 1998
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Hardaway v. Young (2002), State v. Allen (2008)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Colorado v. Connelly · Harmelin v. Michigan · Payne v. Tennessee · Fare v. Michael C. · Colorado v. Spring
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n this analysis, the knowledge of the police is vital. If they have no reason .... to think that the suspect doesn’t understand them, there is nothing that smacks of abusive behavior. It would seem to follow that the question is not whether if [the subject] were more intelligent, informed, balanced, and so forth he would not have waived his Miranda rights, but whether the police believed he understood their explanation of those rights; more precisely, whether a reasonable state court judge could have found that the police believed this.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“cases hold that a distinction must be made between an unknowing waiver, invalid even if not the result of any police misconduct, and an involuntary waiver, invalid only if it is the result of such misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficient mental capacity to form the intent required to be found guilty of the crime.”
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.