Wynn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), Culombe v. Connecticut (1961)
2 federal appellate · 53 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.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Self v. State [ 65 Tenn. 244 ] the Court said: “ ‘When confessions are offered as evidence, their competency becomes a preliminary question, to be determined by the court. This imposes, upon the presiding judge the duty of deciding the fact whether the party making the confession was influenced by hope or fear. This rule is so well established, that if the judge allow the jury to determine the preliminary fact, it is error, for which the judgment will be reversed: Boyd v. State, 2 Humph. 39 . These are elementary principles too long established and followed to be now questioned.’ (Page 253 of 65 Tenn.)” Wynn v. State, 181 Tenn. 325 , 181 S. W. (2d) 332, 333 ; Steele v. State, 189 Tenn. 424 , 225 S. W. (2d) 260 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Witham v. State · Campbell v. State““Error is assigned npon the refusal of the trial judge to give a request. The only evidence that such request was made is a statement to that effect in the motion for a new trial. This is not sufficient, as we have repeatedly held, the motion for a new trial being nothing hut a pleading. * * * There is no showing as to a request in the bill of exceptions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monts v. State““A confession being admitted, its weight is of course a matter for the jury. That is, the jury is to determine whether defendant made the confession and whether the statements contained in it are true. To aid them in resolving these questions the jury may hear evidence of the circumstances under which the confession was procured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith 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.