62 Md. App. 603 - Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2012
10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Mathiason · Hoffa v. United States · Minnesota v. Murphy · New York v. Quarles
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must not forget that “Miranda ... was aimed not at self-incrimination generally ... but at compelled self-incrimination — the inherent coercion of the custodial, incommunicado, third degree questioning process.” In other words, “[t]he purpose of Miranda was to ventilate the musty and at time mysterious precincts of the interrogation room by opening the door to a lawyer or at least apprizing the suspect fully of his legal rights in that regard.” The Miranda Court, in deeming custodial interrogation as “inherently coercive,” decried that “such an interrogation environment is created for no purpose other than to subjugate the individual to the will of his examiner. This atmosphere carried its own badge of intimidation.” Thus, we can see that it is the interrelationship of the examiner and the environment that creates the coercive atmosphere — that determines custody vel non. Although the environment here, a prison, leads us to thoughts of custody, there is nothing coercive whatsoever in the casual questioning by the informer Fowler (appellant’s acquaintance or accomplice) who ostensibly was not a police interrogator, that would functionally or effectively subjugate appel lant to Fowler’s will. Accordingly, the trial court committed no error in admitting these statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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