Vanhouton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2018
19 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 · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty · California v. Beheler · South Dakota v. Neville
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same conclusion has been reached by the vast majority of other jurisdictions that have addressed the issue. The decisions hold that a straightforward alphabet recitation test (or comparable counting exercises), performed during a roadside investigation of suspected drunk driving, are outside the protective sphere of the privilege against self-incrimination because there is no disclosure of subjective knowledge or thought processes in a constitutionally prohibited sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devlin“traffic stops commonly occur in the 'public view,' in an atmosphere far 'less”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“than that surrounding the kinds of interrogation at issue in Miranda itself'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.