State v. Miranda’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 104 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Lynch (1984), State v. Mason (1982)
94 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 In re Disbarment of Allison · Commonwealth v. Amos · State v. Tropiano · United States v. Burks · Maggitt v. Wyrick
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the accused is not permitted to introduce the [victim's] entire criminal record into evidence in an effort to disparage his general character; only specific convictions for violent acts are admissible .... Nor is the accused authorized to introduce any and all convictions for crimes involving violence, no matter how petty, how remote in time, or how dissimilar in their nature to the facts of the alleged aggression. In each case the probative value of the evidence of certain convictions rests in the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jordan · State v. Baca“Section 4-4 (a) (2) [of the Connecticut Code of Evidence] permits the accused in a homicide or criminal assault case to introduce evidence of the victim's violent character, after laying the foundation for a claim of self-defense, in order to prove that the victim was the aggressor. 5 Subsection (b) of § 4-4 provides that proof * of the victim's violent character may be made through reputation or opinion testimony or by evidence of the victim's conviction of a violent crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jordan“in a homicide prosecution where the accused has claimed self-defense, the accused may show that the deceased was the aggressor by proving the deceased's alleged character for violence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fay
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.