Brewer v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1,283 federal appellate · 207 district · 2,353 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,868 later decisions (112 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Franks v. Delaware (1978)
1,283 federal appellate · 207 district · 2,353 state decisions — followed in 49 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWilliams v. Brewer (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Massiah v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Kirby v. Illinois
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 4,868 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“indulge in every reasonable presumption against waiver.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.”
37 later decisions 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.