Robbins v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.2d 45 · 1966
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 17 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Miller (1978), Pavao v. Pagay (2002)
43 federal appellate · 17 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Jones v. United States · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Ventresca
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [A] policeman who identifies himself and his purpose from the other side of a closed door has every reason to assume that the act of unlocking and opening the door, without more, is a consent to talk, and that the walking back into the room- is an implied invitation to conduct the talking inside.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bowing to events, even if one is not happy about them, is not the same thing as being coerced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.