State v. Drayton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Johnson v. State (1997), State v. Stephenson (1994)
52 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Neil v. Biggers · Edwards v. Arizona · Griffin v. California · Moran v. Burbine
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(0)nce it is determined that a suspect’s decision not to rely on his rights was uncoerced, that he at all times knew he could stand mute and request a lawyer, and that he was aware of the state’s intention to use his statements to secure a conviction, the analysis is complete and the waiver is valid as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Binney“A lot of times people say, 'Well, where there's smoke, there's fire' You hear these things everyday”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Estes
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.