State v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The requirement that police officers advise suspects of their Miranda rights is more than a mere procedural nicety or legal technicality. The police must take the giving of the Miranda warnings seriously and must not presume that suspects “are already aware of what rights they possess prior to being questioned.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Effler

2. “he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bogan

3. “(1) the language used to summon the individual; (2) the purpose, place, and manner of interrogation; (3) the extent to which the defendant is confronted with evidence of her guilt; and (4) whether the defendant is free to leave the place of questioning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Iowa v. Hillary Lee Tyler