Bruno v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2000
13 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 Whiskey Cases v. Ford · Alvord v. United States · Cross v. State · Zachary 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of a statute providing for immunity, the fact that a participant or accomplice in the commission of a crime testifies or agrees to testify on behalf of the prosecution, fully and fairly disclosing the guilt of himself and his associates, with the understanding or promise, express or implied, that he will be granted a pardon or will not be prosecuted for his offense does not entitle him to a pardon or immunity as a matter of right; and such facts may not be pleaded in bar of a prosecution.” We have no such statute in this State granting immunity to an accomplice who gives the State aid in the prosecution or apprehension of his co-workers in crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Normally where such a promise is made in good faith and the party who then cooperates and gives the State the necessary assistance the district attorney general may with the consent of the trial court take care of the matter, but when it has not been done in this way the only thing that we know that can be done is that the Chief Executive must be convinced that this is the case for the lending of his [or her] pardoning power.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have no such statute in this State granting immunity to an accomplice who gives the State aid in the prosecution or apprehension of his co-workers in crime. Probably the leading case in the United States on the question is U.S. v. Ford, 99 U.S. 594 , 25 L.Ed. 399 . Therefore, as we view the matter, since there is no statute on the subject in this State, there is nothing that we as a Court can or should do about this promise of immunity that the plaintiff in error claims. Id. 192 Tenn. 250 , 240 S.W.2d at 530-31 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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