People v. Roark’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably People v. Dunlap (1999), People v. Bartowsheski (1983)
53 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 · Michigan v. Mosley · Akers v. Commonwealth · Lamb v. Commonwealth · Vail 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Miranda should not be read so strictly as to require the police to accept as conclusive any statement or act, no matter how ambiguous, as a sign that the suspect desires to cut off questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Woods
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.