410 So. 2d 201 - Leon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2020
6 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 · Michigan v. Mosley · Lego v. Twomey · United States v. Bayer · Lyons v. State of Oklahoma
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the elimination of any causative effect of the coercion is shown also by the more commonly discussed elements that a complete set of Miranda warnings was meticulously given, understood, and waived before the subsequent statements; that over five hours transpired between the violence and the formalization of those statements; and that the confessions were secured by entirely different officers than those who employed the coercive tactics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“They threatened and physically abused him by twisting his arm behind his back and choking him until he revealed where Louis [Gachelin] was being held.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leon v. Wainwright“he was set upon by several of the officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leon v. Wainwright
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.