Edwards v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 91 · 1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 · Schmerber v. State of California · Rhode Island v. Innis · United States v. Dionisio · People v. Ramirez
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““no constitutional infirmity in the questions asked [the petitioner.] The questions were not ‘reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response from the suspect’ in the sense condemned by Miranda and Innis; they were merely part of or incidental tó'the roadside sobriety test. '. . . [The officer] asked [the petitioner] tó recite the alphabet not to obtain testimony, but to test whether [the petitioner’s] memory was impaired.” 688 F.2d at 92 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The questions asked here did not require the suspect to disclose his knowledge of his intoxication. They elicited tangible evidence of the physical condition of the suspect's body. The responses were no more testimonial or communicative than a voice exemplar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Contino v. State
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.