Miranda’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 145 Cal. App. 4th 756 - People v. Williams (2006), 409 Ill. App. 3d 342 - People v. Nash (2011)
6 district · 13 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 Terry v. Ohio · Mathews v. Eldridge · Whren v. United States · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · South Dakota v. Opperman
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he deterrence rationale is incompatible with the principles of the community caretaking doctrine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Impoundment of a vehicle left in a public place or a vehicle for which there is no licensed driver ... [is] likely justified by the need to respond immediately to the hazard or public safety threat caused by the location of the vehicle[ ], which would be incompatible with a requirement of notice and a hearing beforehand. However, the novel question, squarely presented in this case, of whether a pre-deprivation hearing is required for an impoundment from the driveway of the owners’ home, cannot be resolved without more factual development and a more detailed analysis of the competing interests involved. Because Defendants have not provided us with a legitimate caretaking purpose in impounding the car, the question whether a pre-deprivation hearing was required for the Mirandas’ case cannot be properly determined on the record before us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To permit the uninterrupted flow of traffic and in some circumstances to preserve evidence, disabled or damaged vehicles will often be removed from the highways or streets at the behest of police engaged solely in caretaking and traffic-control activities. Police will also frequently remove and impound automobiles which violate parking ordinances and which thereby jeopardize both the public safety and the efficient movement of vehicular traffic. The authority of police to seize and remove from the streets vehicles impeding traffic or threatening public safety and convenience is beyond challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Long v. Gill
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.