Norman v. Ducharme’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 1483 · 1989
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Derrick v. Rs Peterson (1990), Eaton v. Commonwealth (1990)
23 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3501 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Colorado v. Connelly · Brewer v. Williams · North Carolina v. Butler
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he display of the warrant was sufficient to apprise a lay person ... of the nature of the crime for which he was arrested and the gravity of the situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere mention of an attorney does not constitute an equivocal request for counsel, as the word `attorney' is not talismanic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not rise to the level of an equivocal request for counsel.”
1 later decision 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.