Burbine v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 178 · 1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018
3 federal appellate · 12 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 · Johnson v. Zerbst · North Carolina v. Butler · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · People v. Hobson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. the relationship of the suspect to the attorney, 2. the extent of the knowledge possessed by the authorities, 3. the conduct of the authorities, 4. the nature of the attorney’s request, and 5. the background, experience and conduct of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roeder v. State“that the failure to inform a suspect in custody that his attorney or an attorney retained for him was seeking to see him vitiated his waiver of his Fifth Amendment right to assistance of counsel at his questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no other explanation for the refusal to tell Burbine of Attorney Munson's call than . . . deliberate or reckless irresponsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Burbine
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.