Jenkins v. Delaware’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

118 federal appellate · 15 district · 182 state decisions

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 387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “impetus . . . for the implementation of long overdue reforms.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. MacKey v. United States · Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation

2. ““But in an effort to extend the protection of Miranda to as many defendants as was consistent with society’s legitimate concern that convictions already validly obtained not be needlessly aborted, we selected the commencement of the trial. Implicit in this choice was the assumption that, with few exceptions, the commission and investigation of a crime would be sufficiently proximate to the commencement of the defendant’s trial that no undue burden would be imposed upon prosecuting authorities by requiring them to find evidentiary substitutes for statements obtained in violation of the constitutional protections afforded by Miranda.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Gendreau

3. “[o]nce the need is established for applying [a] principle prospectively ... `there is a large measure of judicial discretion involved in deciding ... the time from which the new principle is to be deemed controlling.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People in Interest of SH