State v. Tapia’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Amaya-Ruiz (1990), State v. Newell (2006)
48 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 · Anders v. California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Malloy v. Hogan · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“direct promises that officers would tell the prosecutor [whether] defendant cooperated are permissible, but promises that officers would see to it that a defendant would go to prison if he failed to cooperate are not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“courts will tolerate some form of police gamesmanship so long as the games do not overcome a suspect's will and induce a confession not truly voluntary,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strayhand“that the defendant's will was overborne or that the confession was false or unreliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strayhand
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.