State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Newell (2006), State v. Trostle (1997)
24 federal appellate · 74 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Arizona v. Fulminante · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Scharffe v. Perkins · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A voluntary confession is one not induced by a direct or implied promise, however slight. A confession resulting from a promise is involuntary if (1) police make an express or implied promise and (2) the defendant relies on the promise in confessing. Advice to tell the truth, unaccompanied by either a threat or promise, does not make a confession involuntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blakley“A difficult family background is not a relevant mitigating circumstance unless “a defendant can show that something in that background had an effect or impact on his behavior that was beyond the defendant’s control.” State v. Wallace, 160 Ariz. 424 , 773 P.2d 983 , 986 (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKinney v. Ryan“nothing in the record suggests that [the defendant] relied upon [the officers'] words or even thought he would have a chance at a lighter sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strayhand
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.