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Howes v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

565 U.S. 499 · 2012

Citation profile

173
cited by 173 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
34
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 7 district · 105 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Williams v. Taylor · Edwards v. Arizona · Berkemer v. McCarty

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

  1. “is a term of art that specifies circumstances that are thought generally to present a serious danger of coercion.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “whether the relevant environment presents the same inherently coercive pressures as the type of station house questioning at issue in Miranda.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[I]mprisonment alone is not enough to create a custodial situation within the meaning of Miranda.”
    3 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.