Roper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Turner v. State (1996), Ferrell v. State (1991)
32 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 Chapman v. State of California · Edwards v. Arizona · Brewer v. Williams · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Connecticut v. Barrett
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The U. S. Supreme Court imposed upon law enforcement authorities the duty to maintain a procedure to enable an officer who proposes to initiate an interrogation to determine whether a suspect has previously invoked the right to counsel. . . . “One set of state actors . . . may not claim ignorance of defendants’ unequivocal request for counsel to another state actor. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. State · Ashley v. State“Such a rule would do nothing to safeguard the right of an accused to be free from uncounseled interrogation. In sum, we conclude that the “bright-line” rule of Edwards requires that counsel be present during police-initiated interrogations after an accused has invoked the right to counsel. Roper, supra at 851 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ashley v. State“[A]n accused . . . having expressed his desire to deal with the police only through counsel, is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless the accused himself initiates further communication, exchanges, or conversations with the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. State
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.