State v. Coon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There is often no practical way to determine the voluntariness of ... an admission unless the trial judge personally addresses the defendant at the time the defendant makes the admission. On many occasions the trial judge and all participating court personnel are surprised by a defendant’s answer to a direct question by the judge as to whether anyone used any force or made any threats or promises to induce the defendant to admit to the violation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Valentine