Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1971
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 Gore v. State · Cantrell v. State · Waycaster v. State · Nix v. State · Elder v. State
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.
“if you find a confession was freely and voluntarily made, it will be considered by the jury with all the other evidence in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State“if, in the opinion of the jury, you believe the confession was not freely and voluntarily made, you will not consider it at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant 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.