People v. Algien’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Oregon v. Elstad (1985), People v. Thiret (1984)
49 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Clewis v. Texas · People v. Arnold · Lowe v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning, the privilege against self-incrimination is jeopardized.” Miranda v. Arizona, supra. “[I]n making this determination the objective test should be applied, that is, whether under the circumstances a reasonable man would believe himself to be deprived of his freedom in any significant way.” People v. Algien, supra.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable person would with logic conclude that he could not leave the premises of his own free will but would be detained for formal arrest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.