Michigan v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
232 federal appellate · 50 district · 628 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,169 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Davis v. United States (1994), McNeil v. Wisconsin (1991)
232 federal appellate · 50 district · 628 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anders v. California · Faretta v. California · United States v. Wade
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Michigan v. Jackson · McNeil v. Wisconsin · Patterson v. Illinois
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 1,169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to prevent police from badgering a defendant into waiving his previously asserted Miranda rights.”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he shield provided by Miranda is not to be perverted to a license to testify inconsistently, or even perjuriously, free from the risk of confrontation with prior inconsistent utterances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Both Jackson and Edwards establish prophylactic rules that render some otherwise valid waivers of constitutional rights invalid when they result from police-initiated interrogation.”
2 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.