State v. Van Hook’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Madrigal (2000)
13 federal appellate · 144 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 · Edwards v. Arizona · Michigan v. Mosley · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] mere confession without corroboration by the presentation of other evidence outside the confession which tends to prove some material element of the crime charged is not admissible.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“supported by few practical or social-policy considerations”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an accused * * * having expressed his desire to deal with the police only through counsel, is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless the accused himself initiates further communication, exchanges, or conversations with the police.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lorraine · State v. Kyles
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.