People v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014
13 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 · Edwards v. Arizona · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · North Carolina v. Butler · Michigan v. Jackson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant was considering his options and simply desired to know whether, if he chose to be represented by an attorney, he would be able to have such representation without cost to himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Broder · People v. Adkins“An ambiguous communication is a 'type of conduct, giving rise to opposing inferences”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Adkins · People v. Aryee“an accused, ... having expressed his desire to deal with the police only through counsel, is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless the accused himself initiates further communication, exchanges or conversations with the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kleber
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.