United States v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 454 · 1975
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 33 Cal. 3d 21 - People v. Robertson (1982), United States v. Bolden (1975)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Matlock · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Lego v. Twomey
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the traditional function of police officers in investigating crime ... [to conduct] [g]eneral on-the-scene questioning as to facts surrounding a crime or other general questioning of citizens in the fact-finding process,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitfield v. State“defendant in his confession of one crime refers to the commission of another offense in such a way that the confession is unintelligible if the reference to the other offense is omitted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jury were left free to reason that because Wiggins had killed others he probably killed Davis.”
1 later decision 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.