Hill v. Whealon’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 629 · 1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably Michigan v. Mosley (1975), Solem v. Stumes (1984)
15 federal appellate · 6 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Simmons v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hill contends that his confession was involuntary as a matter of law. He asserts that once he was advised of his Miranda rights and declined to make a statement, the police were precluded at all times thereafter from asking him any questions or talking with him about the case in any way. We join other circuits in refusing to adopt such a narrow construction of Miranda.” Hill v. Whealon, 490 F.2d 629 , 635 (6th Cir. 1974).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is neither necessary nor desirable to undertake to fashion a per se rule to be applied in all cases presenting the Miranda issue. The critical question always must be: has the prosecution sustained its heavy burden of demonstrating that the defendant was effectively advised of his rights and did he knowingly and understandingly decline to exercise them?”
1 later decision 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.