State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Miller v. Fenton (1985), State v. Bey (1988)
5 federal appellate · 124 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Mapp v. Ohio · Malloy v. Hogan
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court should assess the totality of all the surrounding circumstances. It should consider the characteristics of the suspect and the details of the interrogation. Some of the relevant factors include the suspect's age, education and intelligence, advice as to constitutional rights, length of detention, whether the questioning was repeated and prolonged in nature and whether physical punishment or mental exhaustion was involved. [ Id. at 402 , 388 A. 2d 218 (citing Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218, 226 , 93 S.Ct. 2041, 2047 , 36 L.Ed. 2d 854, 862 (1973)).]”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burris · State v. A.M.“[I]f at any time after submission of the case to the jury, a juror dies or is discharged by the court because of illness or other inability to continue, the court may direct the clerk to draw the name of an alternate juror to take the place of the juror who is deceased or discharged....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the interrogation in this case did not exceed the proper bounds and that the voluntariness of defendant's confession could properly have been determined by the trial court to be established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Fenton · Miller v. Fenton
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.