State v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably State v. Dallao (1937), State v. Mattio (1947)
50 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 Bram v. United States · Ziang Sung Wan v. United States · State v. Dreher · State v. Nahoum · State v. Rini
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person under arrest shall be subjected to any treatment designed by effect on body or mind to compel confession of crime; nor shall any confession be used against any person accused of crime unless freely and voluntarily made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robinson“* * * Where an indictment charges two or more jointly with murder, the charge involves a conspiracy, and proof of the conspiracy may be received without its being formally charged. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Melerine“The rule that a confession produced by threat or promise is inadmissible in evidence does not apply to admissions not involving the existence of a criminal intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robinson
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.