State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Instead, when a prisoner is questioned, "language used to summon the individual, the physical surrounding of the interrogation, the extent to which he is confronted with evidence of his guilt, and the additional pressure exerted to detain him must be considered to determine whether a reasonable person would believe there had been a restriction of his freedom over and above that in his normal prisoner setting."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Maples · State v. Stricklin

2. “A defendant's status as a prison inmate does not necessarily make an interview by prison officials 'custodial interrogation' requiring the protections set out in Miranda .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Maples