State v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2026
22 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Berkemer v. McCarty · Oregon v. Mathiason · California v. Beheler
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the locale where the defendant made the statements; (2) the party who initiated the contact; (3) the existence or non-existence of probable cause to arrest (to the extent communicated to the defendant); (4) subjective views, beliefs, or intent that the police manifested to the defendant to the extent they would affect how a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would perceive his or her freedom to leave; (5) subjective views or beliefs that the defendant manifested to the police, to the extent the officer’s response would affect how a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would perceive his or her freedom to leave; (6) the focus of the investigation (as a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would perceive it); (7) whether the suspect was questioned in familiar surroundings; (8) the number of law enforcement officers present; (9) the degree of physical restraint placed upon the suspect; and (10) the duration and character of the interrogation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“endured questioning from four different detectives throughout three lengthy in terviews in a small room during which she became the detectives’ prime suspect; she had been awake since 2:00 A.M.; she told the detectives on more than one occasion that she was not feeling well; she was emotional throughout the interview; she was separated from her child; she was without shoes; ... she had no means of transportation^]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hassan“[The] close and persistent line of interrogation, which involved leading questions and challenged [the suspect's] denials of involvement, strongly suggests that [the suspect] could not help but believe she was in custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Oney
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.