Weir v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 1126 · 1981
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably Fletcher v. Weir (1982), 88 Ill. 2d 245 - People v. Lucas (1981)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. California · Rhode Island v. Innis · Doyle v. Ohio
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every post-arrest silence is insolubly ambiguous ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`an arrest, by itself, is governmental action which implicitly induces a defendant to remain silent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be nothing more than the arrestee's exercise of these Miranda rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.