Lofton v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 74 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2020
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Santoni v. United States · Castor v. United States · United States v. Beechum · Trammel 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In pursuing the point about what was not said during the police questioning, it was necessary, of course, for the prosecutor to bring out all that was said, including Lofton's final comment that he would say nothing further without first talking to a lawyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Doyle's protection of the right to remain silent does not apply to cross-examination and argument concerning a defendant's exculpatory explanation given after the Miranda warnings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grieco v. Hall“(w)e distinguished Doyle, observing that in Doyle the defendants had stood absolutely silent after receiving the Miranda caution while Beechum had not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grieco v. Hall
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.