Grier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Longshore v. State (2007), 164 Md. App. 95 - Marquardt v. State (2005)
73 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 · Griffin v. California · Doyle v. Ohio · Jenkins v. Anderson · United States v. Hale
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of post-arrest silence, after Miranda warnings are given, is inadmissible for any purpose, including impeachment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Reynolds v. State“[ajfter Grier came out of the dead-end alley, the officers immediately arrested him. The officers pursued Grier, “got” him, and put him on the ground. Once [Grier] was on the ground and in the custody and control of the police officers, he was certainly under arrest. Although Officer Farley may have had the right simply to detain and question [Grier] before placing him in custody, he did not do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. State · Longshore v. State“[A] defendant’s failure to come forward does not constitute an admission, and lacks probative value. Citizens ordinarily have no legal obligation to come forward to the police. Failure to come forward to the police may result from numerous factors, including a belief that one has committed no crime, general suspicion of the police, or fear of retaliation. Such silence is simply not probative as substantive evidence of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lupfer v. State
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.