Pennsylvania v. Muniz’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
248 federal appellate · 115 district · 750 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,475 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably McNeil v. Wisconsin (1991), Arizona v. Evans (1995)
248 federal appellate · 115 district · 750 state decisions — followed in 45 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 · United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Rhode Island v. Innis
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Schmerber v. State of California · Edwards v. Arizona · Doe v. United States
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 1,475 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“biographical data necessary to complete booking or pretrial services.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any words or actions on the part of the police (other than those normally attendant to arrest and custody ) that the police should know are reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response from the suspect.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the police may not ask questions, even during booking, that are designed to elicit incriminatory admissions”
12 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.