Compton v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Petty v. People (1968), People v. Brown (1971)
44 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 Jackson v. Denno · Schmerber v. State of California · Breithaupt v. Abram · Downey v. People · Osborn & Noakes v. People
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the jury thereafter determines the weight to be given a confession, or as is sometimes the practice, the fact that the issue as to the voluntariness of a confession ... is also submitted to the jury....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kwiatkoski v. People
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.