People v. Phinney’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. MacUk (1970), 27 Md. App. 361 - Cummings v. State (1975)
27 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person, not actually placed under arrest, is not deemed in custody when questioned by the police unless ‘the questioning takes place under circumstances which are likely to affect substantially the individual’s ‘will to resist and compel him to speak where he would not otherwise do so freely’.’ ... In the case before us, after speaking with the defendant’s father, the police officer asked the defendant a single question, wrote out a summons and left. That was the extent of the interrogation and, quite obviously, it was not the sort of ‘incommunicado police-dominated atmosphere’ or custodial interrogation at which the Miranda rule is aimed.””
1 later decision 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.