Minnesota v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
630 federal appellate · 98 district · 1,346 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,525 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Berkemer v. McCarty (1984), Stansbury v. California (1994)
630 federal appellate · 98 district · 1,346 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.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Escobedo v. Illinois · Gagnon v. Scarpelli
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Lefkowitz v. Cunningham · Oregon v. Mathiason · Berkemer v. McCarty
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 2,525 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
225 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`formal arrest or restraint on freedom of movement.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[N]othing in the Federal Constitution would prevent a State from revoking probation for a refusal to answer that violated an express condition of probation or from using the probationer's silence as `one of a number of factors to be considered by the finder of fact' in deciding whether other conditions of probation have been violated." Murphy, 465 U.S. at 435 n. 7, 79 L.Ed.2d at 425 n. 7, 104 S.Ct. at 1146 n. 7 (emphasis added), quoting Lefkowitz v. Cunningham, 431 U.S. 801 , 808 n. 5, 53 L.Ed.2d 1 , 9 n. 5, 97 S.Ct. 2132 , 2137 n. 5 (1977).”
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.