United States v. Gotay’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 971 · 1988
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Davis v. United States (1994), 125 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Evans (1988)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Edwards v. Arizona · Michigan v. Jackson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]hen a suspect makes an equivocal statement that arguably can be construed as a request for counsel, interrogation must cease except for narrow questions designed to clarify the earlier statement and the suspect's desire for counsel.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[we must] give a broad ... interpretation to a defendant's request for counsel,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly and intelligently [and voluntarily] waived the right . . . invoked.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.