Watson v. Detella’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.3d 450 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Swanigan (2005), United States v. Street (2006)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Lindh v. Murphy · Colorado v. Connelly · Oregon v. Elstad · Miller v. Fenton · Wilson v. O'Leary
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]oercive police activity is a necessary predicate to the finding that a confession is not 'voluntary' within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A confession is voluntary if the totality of the circumstances demonstrates that it was the product of rational intellect and not the result of physical abuse, psychological intimidation, or deceptive interrogation tactics calculated to overcome the defendant's free will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]bsent a showing of some type of official coercion... a defendant's personal characteristics alone are insufficient to render a confession involuntary.”
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.