Little v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Allridge v. State (1991), Burks v. State (1994)
1 federal appellate · 100 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Dunaway v. New York
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the giving of Miranda warnings; 2) the temporal proximity of the arrest and the confession; 3) the presence of intervening circumstances; , and 4) the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cornealius 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.