Thompson v. Keohane’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
589 federal appellate · 225 district · 924 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,521 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Williams v. Taylor (2000), Dickerson v. United States (2000)
589 federal appellate · 225 district · 924 state decisions — followed in 44 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKrantz v. Briggs (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Townsend v. Sain · Brecht v. Abrahamson
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Stansbury v. California · Berkemer v. McCarty · California v. Beheler · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 2,521 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“depends heavily on the trial court's appraisal of witness credibility and demeanor.”
148 later decisions quote this exact passage“a formal arrest or restraint on freedom of movement of the degree associated with a formal arrest.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any interview of one suspected of a crime by a police officer will have coercive aspects to it, simply by virtue of the fact that the police officer is part of a law enforcement system which may ultimately cause the suspect to be charged with a crime. But police officers are not required to administer Miranda warnings to everyone whom they question. Nor is the requirement of warning to be imposed simply because the questioning takes place in the station house, or because the questioned person is one whom the police suspect. Miranda warnings are required only where there has been such a restriction on a person’s freedom as to render him ‘in custody.’”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Barden
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.