State v. Gutierrez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Suspects undergoing custodial interrogation could reasonably assume that even the right to terminate questioning does not afford them the option of leaving the interrogation room.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. P.G. v. State · P.G. v. State

2. “was not a clarifying statement. It was merely an acknowledgment of defendant's right to remain silent rather than an effort to clarify defendant's response. Moreover, defendant's subsequent affirmative nod could be understood to simply express his understanding that he did not need to talk to the trooper. The State argues that defendant's affirmative nod coupled with his”

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

3. “When a [district] court bases its ultimate conclusions concerning the waiver of [a] defendant's Miranda rights, upon essentially undisputed facts, in particular the transcript of an officer's colloquy with [the] defendant, its conclusions present questions of law which we review under a correction of error standard.”

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