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← 2017 UTAPP 124 - State v. MacDonald

State v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Rhode Island v. Innis · Delaware v. Prouse · Berkemer v. McCarty

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]e protect this right by excluding from a defendant's criminal trial any incriminating statement that the defendant made to police officers while under custodial interrogation if the officers did not give a Miranda warning”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “initiated contact with authorities by having his roommate call 911 when he found [the allegedly abused child] unresponsive”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.