Miranda v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““The provisions of law we have quoted do not result in the rights of citizenship being ‘destroyed by ambiguity’ because that sort of vice is not present in these plain and simple provisions of the 1940 law. They bind the courts unless it can be ■ said that they are clearly unconstitutional, a conclusion without rational foundation.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Furuno v. Acheson · Gonzales v. Landon

2. ““In our view, the statutory provisions above noted leave no doubt that Congress thereby removed, and intended to remove, the barrier to a voluntary expatriation by a national who is over the age of eighteen years. After arriving at that age a voluntary act of expatriation binds him, sec. 803(b). Any other construction of the language of the Act (as applied to the situation in the case at bar) would amount to an amendment of the Act by judicial interpretation and import into it obscurities which we 'believe would thwart a clearly expressed Congressional will.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Furuno v. Acheson

3. ““A person who is a national of the United States, whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by: ****** “(e) Voting in a political election in a foreign state or participating- in an election or plebecite to determine the sovereignty over foreign territory; or * * *_»”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 108 F. Supp. 150 - Nieto v. McGrath