Cephus v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Escobedo holding must be read in light of its facts and especially of the purposeful exclusion of Appellant’s waiting lawyer from an opportunity to counsel his client while police pursued their interrogation. There, as in Massiah [Mas-siah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 , 84 S.Ct. 1199 , 12 L.Ed.2d 246 ] affirmative police action existed preventing counsel and advice after the time when, as the Supreme Court decided on the facts in those cases, the right to consult with counsel had attached.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Roberts v. Beto

2. ““the suspect has been taken into police custody, the police carry out a process of ■interrogations that lends itself to eliciting incriminating statements, the suspect has requested and been denied an opportunity to consult with his lawyer, and the police have not effectively warned him of his absolute constitutional right to remain silent, * * 378 U.S. at 490-491 , 84 S.Ct. at 1765 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wright v. United States

3. “If there were a rule that a confession may not be received if made by an accused without counsel, that would be the end of this case — and of scores like it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eddie M. Harrison v. United States of America, Orson G. White v. United States of America, Joseph R. Sampson v. United States