United States v. William Earl Matlock’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008
11 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Chimel v. California · Jones v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Djefendant’s constitutional rights [can] be waived only if it [is] proved that reasonable appearance of authority to consent existed and, also, that just prior to the search, facts existed showing actual authority to consent.” The government must prove these”
1 later decision 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.