Taylor v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that defendant’s statement “I guess I really want a lawyer, but, I mean, I’ve never done this before so I don’t know” constituted “an expression of doubt,” not an unambiguous assertion of right to counsel (quotation omitted)
• finding the statement, “I guess I really want a lawyer, but, I mean, I’ve never done this before so I don’t know,” to be an expression of doubt, not a request
• defendant’s statement, “ 1 guess I really want a lawyer, but, I mean, I’ve never done this before so I don’t know’ ” was “an expression of doubt, not a request”
• “I guess I really want a lawyer, but, I mean, I’ve never done this before so I don’t know” was equivocal statement by defendant and did not require police to cease questioning or ask clarifying questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

78 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Litchfield v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-03-24· cited 465×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-06-07· cited 233×
• State v. Saylor
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-09-30· cited 214×
• Stephenson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-01-25· cited 148×
• Pruitt v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-09-13· cited 135×
• State v. Quirk
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-02-14· cited 131×
• Ajabu v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-03-06· cited 116×
• Overstreet v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-02-29· cited 105×
• Harrison v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-02-09· cited 99×
• State v. Barrera
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 98×
• Almeida v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 85×
• Malinski v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-09-03· cited 73×
• Clark v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-05-19· cited 65×
• Joyner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-04· cited 57×
• Donald W. Myers, III. v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-04-08· cited 53×
• Washington v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-12-19· cited 49×
• Alford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-08-19· cited 48×
• Erving Sanders v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2013-06-25· cited 44×
• State v. Kevin Lynch
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2017-03-10· cited 44×
• Goodner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-07-23· cited 42×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 2,777×
• Marshall v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-08-31· cited 130×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-30· cited 110×
• Butler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-28· cited 70×
• Warner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-10-22· cited 51×
• Haviland v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-03-13· cited 49×
• Pasco v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-12-12· cited 36×
• Yerden v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-07-03· cited 26×
• Sleek v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-11-14· cited 26×
• Jackson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-07-22· cited 25×
• Wilcoxen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-08-25· cited 21×
• Alvarado v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-10-14· cited 8×