State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Harris v. New York (1971), 44 Cal. 3d 309 - People v. May (1988)
56 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 · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Walder 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accused is not *Page 7 entitled to a discharge for delay in bringing him to trial unless it appears that he resisted postponement, demanded a trial, or made some effort to procure a speedier trial than the state accorded him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Affirmative action on the part of an accused in the nature of a demand to be tried is necessary to invoke the constitutional protection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The protection against compulsory self-incrimination does not operate to exclude the prosecution’s use of voluntary statements of an accused, made to police without Miranda warnings, for the purpose only of impeaching his credibility on cross-examination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lancaster
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.