State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Golding (1989), State v. Baldwin (1993)
55 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Smith v. Illinois · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n accused in custody, having expressed his desire to deal with the police only through counsel, is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless he [the defendant] validly waives his earlier request for the assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a suspect makes an equivocal statement that arguably can be construed as a request for counsel, interrogation must cease except for narrow questions designed to clarify the earlier statement and the suspect's desire for counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Purcell
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.