State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Paahana (1983), State v. Melemai (1982)
58 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Oregon v. Mathiason · Beckwith 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permissible general on-the-scene questioning,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Nakagawa · State v. Sebay“[w]hether the defendant was in custody or otherwise deprived of [their] freedom of action for Miranda purposes is to be determined from the totality of the circumstances, objectively appraised.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the place and time of interrogation, the length of the interrogation, the nature of the questions asked, the conduct of the police, and all other relevant circumstances.”
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.