Mathis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
417 federal appellate · 94 district · 638 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,407 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Berkemer v. McCarty (1984), Oregon v. Mathiason (1977)
417 federal appellate · 94 district · 638 state decisions — followed in 46 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMathis v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mathis v. United States
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Orozco v. Texas · Rhode Island v. Innis · Oregon v. Mathiason · Escobedo v. Illinois
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 1,407 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“These differences are too minor and shadowy to justify a departure from the well-considered conclusions of Miranda with reference to warnings to be given to a person held in custody.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the] questions were asked as part of a routine tax investigation where no criminal proceedings might even be brought ...”
5 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.