State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Connecticut v. Porter (1997), State v. Reynolds (2003)
206 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Arizona v. Fulminante · Lego v. Twomey · Norman v. Reed
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he government has the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that a consent to search was voluntary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Thompson
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.