Ramos v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) he has the right to remain silent and not make any statement at all and that any statement he makes may be used against him at his trial; (2) any statement he makes may be used as evidence against him in court; (3) he has the right to have a lawyer present to advise him prior to and during any questioning; (4) if he is unable to employ a lawyer, he has the right to have a lawyer appointed to advise him prior to and during any questioning; and (5) he has the right to terminate the interview at any time ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Kivean Deshai Coffey v. State · Esaw Lampkin v. State

2. “[Ramos’s] statement to [the officer] that he did not want to talk to him was an unambiguous, unequivocal, and unqualified assertion of the right to remain silent. A reasonable police officer in [the officer’s] position would not have found [Ramos’s] assertion of his right to be ambiguous. Any ambiguity in [Ramos’s] other statement to [the officer], that he did not want to talk about “it” anymore, was, in context, entirely irrelevant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Williams v. State