People v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Claudio v. Scully (1992), Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety (1991)
4 federal appellate · 18 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In retaining an attorney specifically in response to repeated police-initiated contacts, defendant unequivocally indicated that he felt himself unable to deal with the authorities without legal assistance. In a real sense, he had activated his constitutional right to interpose an attorney between himself and the overwhelming power of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Claudio v. Scully“a defendant is known to have invoked the right to and obtained the services of counsel on the matter about which the person is questioned, the State may not use statements elicited from that person in the absence of a waiver of counsel made in the presence of the attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Garrison“We would be hard pressed logically to proscribe such conduct in the civil context yet blithely overlook it in the criminal sphere.”
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.