State v. McFall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably State v. Walton (1989), 169 W. Va. 121 - State v. Persinger (1982)
65 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 Carroll v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Draper v. United States · Ker v. State of California · Malloy v. Hogan
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confession to be free and voluntary within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States must not have been obtained by ‘any direct or implied promises, however slight * * * ’.” (Emphasis in original.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An answer by a witness that he does not remember whether an event occurred is not a denial that the event did not occur. Such an answer does not contradict the defendant’s positive assertion that when he asked for the tablets the officers replied, “that matter would be discussed after we had taken care of the business at hand * * * ” The defendant’s testimony is unimpeached, either by the officers’ testimony or other testimony or circumstances in the case. It should have been accepted at face value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas
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.