Darwin v. Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 18 district · 210 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 417 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Moran v. Burbine (1986), Oregon v. Elstad (1985)
97 federal appellate · 18 district · 210 state decisions — followed in 26 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 · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Haynes v. Washington · Davis v. North Carolina
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 417 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A principal reason why a suspect may make a second or third confession is simply that, having already confessed once or twice, he might think he has little to lose by repetition.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“petitioner's lawyers made numerous attempts to communicate with petitioner or with the officer in charge. (Cf., Escobedo ..., Miranda ..., supra, at 465, n. 35.) ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'break in the stream of events . . . sufficient to insulate'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estelle v. Jurek · Oregon v. Elstad
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.