Anderson v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
356 federal appellate · 27 district · 734 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,341 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Greer v. Miller (1987), Fletcher v. Weir (1982)
356 federal appellate · 27 district · 734 state decisions — followed in 43 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
reviewedCharles v. Anderson (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Stovall v. Denno · Doyle v. Ohio · Jenkins v. Anderson · Rodriguez v. United States
Cited together with Doyle v. Ohio · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jenkins v. Anderson · Fletcher v. Weir · Chapman v. State of California
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 1,341 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doyle does not apply to cross-examination that merely inquires into prior inconsistent statements.”
107 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen I tried to talk to my attorney they wouldn't let me see him and after that he just said to keep quiet.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I don't know what you are talking about.”
5 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.