McCleary v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the fundamental duty of the court in all cases to pass upon the admissibility of evidence. A confession alone constitutes no crime; it.is only evidence tending to show that a crime has been committed, and it may or may not be believed by the jury, or by the court sitting as a jury, in any particular case; but the admissibility of it as evidence to be submitted to the jury is distinctly, under the system of law prevailing with us, a question for the court.””

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

2. “[Confessions were not to be excluded because they were the admission of the person charged with the commission of a crime, but only where the circumstances were such under which they were made, that a reasonable presumption arises that they might have been induced by a promise or threat from one in authority and consequently were open to the objection that they might not be true.”

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