Texas v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 44 district · 220 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 718 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Maryland v. Shatzer (2010), Montejo v. Louisiana (2009)
202 federal appellate · 44 district · 220 state decisions — followed in 35 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 · Blockburger v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Edwards v. Arizona · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 718 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one, is whether each provision requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Sixth Amendment right to counsel ... is offense specific. It cannot be invoked once for all future prosecutions, for it does not attach until a prosecution is commenced, that is, at or after the initiation of adversary judicial criminal proceedings — whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'offense specific,' " and does not automatically attach "to crimes that are factually related to those that have actually been charged.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Peoples v. Campbell · U.S. v. Black
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.