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State v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

260
cited by 260 later decisions
4
states following
April 2022
most recently cited

259 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 260 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably State v. Barden (2002), State v. Biber (2011)

259 state decisions

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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 · United States v. Mendenhall · Berkemer v. McCarty · Colorado v. Connelly · Moran v. Burbine

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

  1. “based upon the trial court's findings of fact, a reasonable person in [the juvenile's] position would have believed that he was under arrest or was restrained in his movement to that significant degree.”
    13 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “It is well established that the standard of review in evaluating a trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress is that the trial court's findings of fact `are conclusive on appeal if supported by competent evidence, even if the evidence is conflicting.'”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “`questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way.'”
    7 later decisions 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.