377 Pa. Super. 382 - Commonwealth v. Muniz’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014
11 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 · Schmerber v. State of California · 280 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Benson · 368 Pa. Super. 488 - Commonwealth v. Conway · 365 Pa. Super. 106 - Commonwealth v. Bruder
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'requesting a driver, suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, to perform physical tests or take a breath analysis does not violate [his] privilege against self-incrimination because [the] evidence procured is of a physical nature rather than testimonial, and therefore no Miranda warnings are required.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Muniz's videotaped responses . . . certainly led the finder of fact to infer that his confusion and failure to speak clearly indicated a state of drunkenness that prohibited him from safely operating his vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the physical nature of the tests begins to yield testimonial and communicative statements . . . the protections afforded by Miranda are invoked.”
1 later decision 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.