Fare v. Michael C.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
538 federal appellate · 139 district · 1,742 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,938 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Edwards v. Arizona (1981), Berkemer v. McCarty (1984)
538 federal appellate · 139 district · 1,742 state decisions — followed in 50 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 · Gault · Harris v. New York · North Carolina v. Butler
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Moran v. Burbine · North Carolina v. Butler · Colorado v. Connelly
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 2,938 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he determination whether statements obtained during custodial interrogation are admissible against the accused is to be made upon an inquiry into the totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation, to ascertain whether the accused in fact knowingly and voluntarily decided to forgo his rights to remain silent and to have the assistance of counsel.”
131 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage“rigid rule that an accused's request for an attorney is per se an invocation of his Fifth Amendment rights, requiring that all interrogation cease.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.