State v. Medlin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. Barden (2002), State v. Daughtry (1995)
38 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 · Brinegar v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Smith v. Illinois · Duckworth v. Eagan
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A suspect is in custody when, considering the totality of circumstances, a reasonable person in the suspect's position would not feel free to leave. `This test is necessarily an objective one to be applied on a case-by-case basis considering all the facts and circumstances.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable person in the defendant's situation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JDB
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.