Arizona v. Roberson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
284 federal appellate · 79 district · 931 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,684 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Davis v. United States (1994), McNeil v. Wisconsin (1991)
284 federal appellate · 79 district · 931 state decisions — followed in 46 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 · Giglio v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty
Cited together with Edwards v. Arizona · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · McNeil v. Wisconsin · Minnick v. Mississippi · Michigan v. Jackson
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 1,684 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are implemented by the application of the Edwards corollary”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Surely there is nothing ambiguous about the requirement that after a person in custody has expressed his desire to deal with the police only through counsel, he `is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless the accused himself initiates further communication, exchanges, or conversations with the police.'”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless the accused himself initiates further communication, exchanges, or conversations with the police.”
25 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.