State v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Elison (2000), Dashiell v. State (2003)
2 district · 50 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Berkemer v. McCarty · Michigan v. Summers · United States v. Perdue
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘law enforcement officers need not administer Miranda warnings to suspects during brief investigative encounters even if those encounters are somewhat coercive. Moreover, we have stated that an interrogation is not custodial unless there is a significant restriction of personal liberty similar to an arrest ... and even temporary confinement as a safety precaution does not render the detention 'custodial’ for Miranda purposes ....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. D. Hurlbert“the State must ... establish objective data from which an experienced officer can make certain inferences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DRB“may not last longer than is necessary to effectuate the purpose of the stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DRB
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.