Vergara v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hughes v. State (2015), State v. Grier (2011)
2 federal appellate · 104 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Edwards v. Arizona · Jackson v. Denno
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court determines the admissibility of a defendant's statement under the preponderance of the evidence standard considering the totality of the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Norwood v. State · Carter v. State“[t]o make a confession admissible, it shall have been made voluntarily, without being induced by another by the slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[w]here controlling facts are not in dispute, ... such as those facts discernible from a videotape, our review is de novo,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norwood 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.