Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada Humboldt County et al.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
321 federal appellate · 82 district · 538 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,235 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Davis v. Washington (2006), Illinois v. Caballes (2005)
321 federal appellate · 82 district · 538 state decisions — followed in 39 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Crawford v. Washington · United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Illinois v. Wardlow · Florida v. Bostick · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera
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 1,235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To qualify for the Fifth Amendment privilege, a communication must be testimonial, incriminating, and compelled.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In the ordinary course a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[o]btaining a suspect's name in the course of a Terry stop serve[d] important government interests”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.