Cervantes v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 424 · 1978
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 6 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bradley v. Ohio (1990), United States v. Newton (2004)
56 federal appellate · 6 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 29 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Oregon v. Mathiason · Sosna v. Iowa · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a change in the surroundings of the prisoner which results in an added imposition on his freedom of movement,”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is not intended to hamper the traditional funetion of police officers in investigating crime.... General on-the-scene questioning as to facts surrounding a crime or other general questioning of citizens in the fact-finding process is not affected [by the Miranda decision]'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable person to believe his freedom of movement had been further diminished.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Scalf · In re B.C.
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.