State v. Amidon’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2026
23 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 · Harris v. New York · Luce v. United States · Brooks v. Tennessee · United States v. Mezzanatto
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen construing a rule, we consider its plain language and the purpose it was designed to serve.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The interpretation of procedural rules is a question of law which we review de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we look to federal cases interpreting the federal rule for guidance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.