168 W. Va. 211 - State Ex Rel. White v. Mohn’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 169 W. Va. 121 - State v. Persinger (1982), State v. Moore (1991)
73 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Denno · Schneble v. Florida · Milton v. Wainwright
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A spontaneous statement by a defendant made prior to any action by a police officer or before an accusation, arrest or any custodial interrogation is made or undertaken by the police may be admitted into evidence without the voluntariness thereof first having been determined in an in camera hearing.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““[i]t is the mandatory duty of a trial court, whether requested or not, to hear the evidence and determine in the first instance, out of the presence of the jury, the voluntariness of an oral or written confession by an accused person prior to admitting the same into evidence.” Syllabus Point 1, State v. Fortner, 150 W.Va. 571 , 148 S.E.2d 669 (1966), overruled in part, State ex rel. White v. Mohn, [168] W.Va. [211], 283 S.E.2d 914 (1981).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where there is a failure to hold an in camera hearing on the defendant’s incul-patory statements, we recognize under Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368 , 12 L.Ed.2d 908 , 84 S.Ct. 1774 (1964), that the case will not be reversed for a new trial on this basis alone. Instead, it will be remanded for a voluntariness hearing before the trial court. If the trial court finds the statements are voluntary the verdict will stand. If, on the other hand, he finds the statements to be involuntary, the verdict will be set aside unless the trial court determines that this constitutional error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.