Michigan v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
207 federal appellate · 69 district · 329 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 939 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Torgerson v. City of Rochester (2011), State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion) (2016)
207 federal appellate · 69 district · 329 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · Davis v. Washington · Idaho v. Wright
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 939 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there may be other circumstances, aside from ongoing emergencies, when a statement is not procured with a primary purpose of creating an out-of-court substitute for trial testimony.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Statements are nontestimonial when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency. They are testimonial when the circumstances objectively indicate that there is no such ongoing emergency, and that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.