United States v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 1 · 1985
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 23 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Boylan (1990), United States v. Natanel (1991)
96 federal appellate · 23 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · United States v. Russell · Fahy v. Connecticut
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Merely asking the accused whether he understood his rights does not satisfy the duties of an interrogating officer or make any statement the accused might then make admissible. Miranda requires the interrogating officer to go further and make sure that the accused, knowing his rights, voluntarily relinquishes them.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he confrontation clause does not come into play where a potential witness neither testifies nor provides evidence at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“avoid[ed] attributing a talismanic quality to the word `attorney' falling from a suspect's lips.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.