Peoples v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 2015
3 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 · Lockhart v. Nelson · Truex v. State · 607 So. 2d 369 - Hull v. State · 47 Ala. App. 677 - Bedingfield v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, the police officer’s involvement in the appellant’s interrogation was not insignificant. The record indicates that the officer was present throughout the process. He had recently assisted in the arrest of the youngster who had accompanied the appellant to the store and was then asked by an employee to remain in the security office during the detention and the questioning of the appellant. Furthermore, the physical surroundings and conditions of the interrogation certainly emphasized the officer’s presence. Under these circumstances, the appellant could have reasonably concluded that she was not merely answering the questions of the K-Mart employees, but the questions of the police officer as well and that, for all practical purposes, a police investigation was in progress. Therefore, the appellant was entitled to be advised of her rights under Miranda before being questioned. The trial court erred in allowing the appellant’s confession into evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n certain instances private conduct can become so entangled with government involvement that a reasonable person would find it difficult to distinguish one from another. In such a case, the question of whether one is entitled to the protections of Miranda cannot be answered merely by observing the relationship between the private citizen and the government official as they themselves see it. Our inquiry must focus on whether “the presence of the police and/or other circumstances indicate that the questioner is acting on behalf of the police.” 1 W. LaFave & J. Israel, supra, § 6.10(b), p. 141 (Supp.1991). “It is the impact on the suspect’s mind of the interplay between police interrogation and police custody — each condition reinforcing the pressures and anxieties produced by the other — which creates ‘custodial interrogation’ within the meaning of Miranda.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we are to consider all erroneously admitted evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.