State v. Pilcher’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Scales (1994), State v. Lockhart (2010)
52 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · Arizona v. Fulminante · California v. Trombetta · Blackburn v. Alabama
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That he adhered to this woven tapestry of lies shows that Pilchers will was not overborne.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bailey · State v. Ganpat“In the future, we urge that law enforcement professionals use those technological means at their disposal to fully preserve those conversations and events preceding the actual interrogation. Law enforcement personnel and prosecutors may expect that this court will look with great disfavor upon any further refusal to heed these admonitions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanders · State v. Douglas“together with other circumstances surrounding the interrogation, were so coercive, so manipulative, so overpowering that [the defendant] was deprived of his ability to make an unconstrained and wholly autonomous decision to speak as he did.”
2 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.