Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

51 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellant also contends that the trial court erred in not holding a hearing to determine whether her ‘confession’ to the agents was voluntary. * * * Suffice it to say that volun-tariness was never put in issue. Not only was there no objection but there was no way the trial court could have been aware that the voluntariness of her oral statements to the agents was questioned. * * * There must be a limit to the clairvoyance we require the trial courts to possess.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sellers v. Smith · Randall v. United States

2. ““ * * * By custodial interrogation, we mean 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.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Rodney P.(Anonymous) · 6 Ariz. App. 428 - State v. Noriega

3. “This is what we meant in Escobedo when we spoke of an investigation which had focused on an accused.”

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