State v. Meade’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]e hold that defendant, without prompting from the police, initiated further conversation that evinced a willingness and a desire for a generalized discussion about the investigation. Defendant's physical gestures cut off further questions by the officers. Having asserted control over the conversation, he then chose to reopen the topic of the investigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to enter into a generalized discussion of the substance of the charges”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“put up his hands as if to stop the detectives from speaking, and said 'You've talked a lot. I want to say a few things' " and discussed his relationship with the victim's mother, the detective's handling of the investigation, and his own innocence). The state argues that defendant showed a "willingness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.