Missouri v. Seibert’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
427 federal appellate · 134 district · 938 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,002 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably State v. Hale (2008), J. D. B. v. North Carolina (2011)
427 federal appellate · 134 district · 938 state decisions — followed in 43 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Whren v. United States · Brown v. Illinois
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Elstad · Rhode Island v. Innis · Moran v. Burbine · Dickerson v. United States
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 2,002 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the completeness and detail of the questions and answers in the first round of interrogation, the overlapping content of the two statements, the timing and setting of the first and the second, the continuity of police personnel, and the degree to which the interrogator’s questions treated the second round as continuous with the first.”
159 later decisions quote this exact passage“an additional warning that explains the likely inadmissibility of the prewarning custodial statement.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'the intent of the officer will rarely be ... candidly admitted.'”
31 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.