State v. DesLaurier’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Atkinson (1996), State v. Pinder (1999)
78 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 · Berkemer v. McCarty · Pate v. Robinson · Sanders v. United States · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“took advantage of an inherently coercive situation created by any physical restraint that the medical attendants may have asserted against him for purposes of his treatment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackson“whether a reasonable person in the defendant's position would believe that there was a restraint on [his] freedom of movement of the degree associated with a formal arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Castillo“No definitive list of factors governs a determination of whether a reasonable person in the defendant's position would have believed that he or she was in custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Castillo
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.