228 Wis. 2d 495 - State v. Dagnall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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. “[although a suspect need not 'speak with the discrimination of an Oxford don' ... he must articulate his desire to have counsel present sufficiently clearly that a reasonable police officer in the circumstances would understand the statement to be a request for an attorney.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dagnall · 229 Wis. 2d 469 - State v. Hornung

2. “Indeed, after a formal accusation has been made — and a person who had previously been just a 'suspect' has become an 'accused' within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment — the constitutional right to the assistance of counsel is of such importance that the police may no longer employ techniques for eliciting information from an uncounseled defendant that might have been entirely proper at an earlier stage of their investigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 229 Wis. 2d 469 - State v. Hornung

3. “[W]hile the precise degree of clarity required of right-to-counsel invocations under the Sixth Amendment appears to be unsettled in the law, it does appear that greater leeway is afforded charged defendants in this respect (under the Sixth Amendment) than uncharged suspects (under the Fifth Amendment) during custodial questioning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 229 Wis. 2d 469 - State v. Hornung