Watts v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
338 U.S. 49 · 1949
Citation profile
532 federal appellate · 50 district · 573 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,547 later decisions (147 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
532 federal appellate · 50 district · 573 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 McNabb v. United States · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Haley v. Ohio · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Brown v. State of Mississippi
Cited together with Turner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Haley v. Ohio · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee · Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner
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 1,547 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a suspect speaks because he is overborne, it is immaterial whether he has been subjected to a physical or a mental ordeal”); United States v. Kelly, 707 F.2d 1460 , 1477 (D.C.Cir.) (noting that “psychological coercion,”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under this conception of criminal procedure, any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.