Fitzpatrick v. New York’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably United States v. Ceccolini (1978), United States v. Lemon (1977)
26 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Chimel v. California · Harris v. New York · United States v. Paroutian
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is a significant constitutional question whether the "independent source" exception to inadmissibility of fruits [citing Wong Sun ] encompasses a hypothetical as well as an actual independent source.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Cook
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.