Stansbury v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
381 federal appellate · 234 district · 1,695 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,902 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Dickerson v. United States (2000), Yarborough v. Alvarado (2004)
381 federal appellate · 234 district · 1,695 state decisions — followed in 48 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. Mendenhall · Berkemer v. McCarty · Harris v. New York · Oregon v. Mathiason
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · California v. Beheler · Oregon v. Mathiason · Thompson v. Keohane
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 2,902 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“restraint on freedom of movement of the degree associated with a formal arrest.”
82 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on the objective circumstances of the interrogation, not on the subjective views harbored by either the interrogating officers or the person being questioned.”
76 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even a clear statement from an officer that the person under interrogation is a prime suspect is not, in itself, dispositive of the custody issue, for some suspects are free to come and go until the police decide to make an arrest.”
75 later decisions 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.