Ripkowski v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

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

1. “An inquiry into the waiver of Miranda rights “has two distinct dimensions.” First, the waiver must be “voluntary in the sense that it was the product of a free and deliberate choice rather than intimidation, coercion, or deception.” Second, the waiver must be made “with a full awareness both of the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it.” ... Intoxication, for example, is but one relevant factor to consider in determining whether an accused understood his rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kearney v. State

2. “In Smith,-'the violation of the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel turned upon the State’s”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Darcy, Christopher Earl