Garner v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.3d 257 · 2009
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Anderson (2012), United States v. Adams (2009)
14 federal appellate · 8 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Edwards v. Arizona · Colorado v. Connelly · Moran v. Burbine
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“diminished mental capacity alone does not prevent a defendant from validly waiving his or her Miranda rights”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Garner had the capacity to understand the criminal nature of his actions and the consequences of those actions. That Garner had this capacity at the time that he committed the crimes suggests that, when questioned about those crimes on the next day, Garner also had the capacity to understand and appreciate the consequences of speaking to police about his criminal conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant question is not whether the “criminal suspect knew and understood every possible consequence of a waiver of the Fifth Amendment privilege,” but rather whether the “suspect knew that, he could choose not to talk to law enforcement officers, to talk only with counsel present, or to discontinue talking at any time.””
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.