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562 U.S. 344 · 2011

Citation profile

419
cited by 419 later decisions
26
cited 26 times by the Supreme Court
41
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 1 district · 307 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Crawford v. Washington · Whren v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Rhode Island v. Innis

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 419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'primary purpose' ... was to 'creat[e] an out-of-court substitute for trial testimony.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “objective[] evaluat[ion of] the circumstances in which the encounter occurs and the statements and actions of the parties.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “limit[ing of] the Confrontation Clause's reach to testimonial statements”
    2 later decisions 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.