Moran v. Burbine’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1,174 federal appellate · 481 district · 2,313 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,392 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), Colorado v. Connelly (1986)
1,174 federal appellate · 481 district · 2,313 state decisions — followed in 48 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
reviewedBurbine v. Moran (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Colorado v. Connelly · Strickland v. Washington · Fare v. Michael C.
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 5,392 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation”
352 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Events occurring outside of the presence of the suspect and entirely unknown to him surely can have no bearing on the capacity to comprehend and knowingly relinquish a constitutional right.”
131 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the crucible of meaningful adversarial testing.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.