Davis v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
656 federal appellate · 101 district · 1,373 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,632 later decisions (107 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Chimel v. California (1969), Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971)
656 federal appellate · 101 district · 1,373 state decisions — followed in 48 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Dunaway v. New York
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 2,632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involves none of the probing into an individual's private life and thoughts that marks an interrogation or search.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]o argue that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to the investigatory stage is fundamentally to misconceive the purposes of the Fourth Amendment. Investigatory seizures would subject unlimited numbers of innocent persons to the harassment and ignominy incident to involuntary detention. Nothing is more clear than that the Fourth Amendment was meant to prevent wholesale intrusions upon the personal security of our citizenry, whether these intrusions be termed ‘arrests’ or ‘investigatory detentions.’ ””
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“settled principle that while the police have the right to request citizens to answer voluntarily questions concerning unsolved crimes they have no right to compel them to answer”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.