Wolfrath v. LaVallee’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 965 · 1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Townsend v. Sain · Jackson v. Denno · Patterson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]pontaneous statements which are not the result of 'official interrogation' have never been subject to [ Miranda 's] strictures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The burden of proving a constitutional claim on federal habeas corpus review lies with the petitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitaker v. Meachum
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.