People v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably People v. Mozee (1986), People v. Traubert (1980)
29 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. Zerbst · Brewer v. Williams · People v. Harris · United States v. Clark
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant made a request for an attorney, and the police officers were thereby placed on notice that the defendant intended to exercise his constitutional rights. Admittedly, the demand was not in the most sophisticated or legally proper form, but it was adequate. At that point, all interrogation should have ceased until an attorney was made available to the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Traubert“[i]f the police may try to subtly secure a waiver of rights after the accused has requested an attorney, the rights guaranteed by Miranda would be illusory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Lynn“if he (Richards) felt like talking, I would be glad to listen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Lynn
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.