Felder v. Ol McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 1245 · 1985
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Patterson v. Illinois (1988), 596 So. 2d 957 - Traylor v. State (1992)
14 federal appellate · 10 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Edwards v. Arizona · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Massiah v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After counsel for a person who has been charged with and arrested for a criminal offense has directed the police not to interrogate the accused in the absence of counsel, a confession elicited from the accused by police questioning in counsel's absence is inadmissible even though the police have given him a Miranda warning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the appropriate standard for reviewing the validity of a waiver of the [S]ixth [A]mendment right to have counsel present at an interrogation is essentially the same standard applied to waivers of the [F]ifth [A]mendment right to counsel where the right to counsel has been previously invoked,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere giving of Miranda warnings, after the accused through his lawyer has instructed the police not to interrogate him, does not sanction that interrogation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Self v. Collins
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.