Illinois v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
263 federal appellate · 99 district · 590 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,268 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Arizona v. Fulminante (1991), Stansbury v. California (1994)
263 federal appellate · 99 district · 590 state decisions — followed in 41 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 · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty · Mincey v. Arizona
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty · Edwards v. Arizona · Moran v. Burbine
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 1,268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the premise of Miranda that the danger of coercion results from the interaction of custody and official interrogation.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the danger of coercion result[ing] from the interaction of custody and official interrogation.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nothing in the Court’s opinion suggests that, had respondent previously invoked his Fifth Amendment right to counsel or right to silence, his statements would be admissible. If respondent had invoked either right, the inquiry would focus on whether he subsequently waived the particular right.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.