Kermeen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1960
16 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 People v. Suesser · People v. Loper · People v. Miller
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question whether a confession is free and voluntary is a preliminary one addressed to the trial court (People v. Miller. 135 Cal. 69 , 67 Pac. 12 ), and that court is clothed with a considerable amount of discretion in determining it (People v. Suesser, 142 Cal. 361 , 75 Pac. 1093 ).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Galas v. State · Burrows v. State
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.