Snethen v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 456 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2008
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t was 'coercion' by his mother that led to Snethen's inculpatory remarks, not by the police”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Snethen's mother prodded Snethen, both in the presence of police and in a private discussion, to describe the . . . killing to the police so his half-brother would not be punished unjustly”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f [my son] did this, he will tell me,”
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.