John Gordon Purvis v. Richard L. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015
9 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Berkemer v. McCarty · Colorado v. Connelly · California v. Beheler
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.
“The state trial court [is] in the unique position, after observing [the defendant] and listening to the evidence presented at trial, to determine whether a reasonable person in [defendant's] position would have felt free to leave the police station.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Keohane“[T]hen when [the suspect] did say that he killed her, he sat down and he looked downward with his eyes and appeared more relaxed as if unburdening himself....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morales v. Artuz“restraint on freedom of movement of the degree associated with a formal arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feltrop v. Delo
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.