Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A suspect who asks for a lawyer at any time during a custodial interrogation may not be subjected to further questioning by law enforcement until an attorney has been made available or until the suspect reinitiates the conversation. If the police persist in questioning a suspect who has requested that counsel be present, any resulting statements made by the suspect are inadmissible in the State’s case-in-chief. In order for a suspect to properly invoke his right to counsel during a custodial interrogation, he must articulate his desire to have counsel present sufficiently clearly that a reasonable police officer in the circumstances would understand the statement to be a request for an attorney.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Manley v. State

2. “Any ambiguity was created solely by the investigator’s subsequent questioning. [Manley] “did not use equivocal words such as ‘might’ or ‘maybe’ when referring to [his] desire for a lawyer. [He] was also not referring to a need for counsel sometime in the future....” Taylor v. State, 274 Ga. 269, 272 (1) ( 553 SE2d 598 ) (2001).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Manley v. State

3. ““When a suspect in custody unequivocally invokes his right to an attorney, all interrogations of that suspect must cease until an attorney is provided or the suspect offers to restart the interrogation process.” [Cit.] This did not occur, and any resulting answers and statements are inadmissible. [Cit.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wheeler v. State