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State v. Toste’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

197
cited by 197 later decisions
4
states following
December 2022
most recently cited

2 district · 192 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Boscarino (1987), State v. Reynolds (2003)

2 district · 192 state decisions

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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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Barker v. Wingo · Carroll 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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The question is not one of form, but rather whether the defendant in fact knowingly and voluntarily waived the rights delineated in the Miranda case.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he question of waiver must be determined on `the particular facts and circumstances surrounding that case, including the background, experience, and conduct of the accused.' Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458 , 464 [ 58 S.Ct. 1019 , 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938)].”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “communicated relatively well and operated at about a sixth to seventh grade level. We agree with the district court that the preponderance of the facts in the instant case, as found by the Connecticut courts, demonstrate that Toste knowingly and intelligently waived his right to remain silent. OAKES, Circuit Judge (dissenting): 5 A nineteen-year-old with a mental age of thirteen who had been in and out of institutions, including Willowbrook, from the age of seven to the time he committed the crime, and who had been diagnosed as having”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.