State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1978 · most notably State v. Lucas (1959), State v. Miller (1978)
32 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 State v. Hauptmann · Bullock v. State · Roesel v. State · State v. Morehous · State v. Barts
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the complaint is made that it was error to overrule questions seeking to elicit information as to whether the defendants had been advised as to their rights and privileges and the right to counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law of this state is settled that if death, through a criminal agency, be proved, and a man confesses to having caused the death, such proof will support a conviction of murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper“The true criterion is the actual state of mind of the accused at the time the confessions were made * * *,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tune
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.