State v. Hieu Tran’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he extent to which the suspect was confronted with evidence of guilt; whether and to what degree the suspect’s freedom of movement was restrained; whether the police used deceptive techniques in conducting the interview; the degree to which the suspect was isolated from the outside world; the duration of the interview; whether the police officers were armed; and the number of police officers present during the interview.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sullivan

2. “a two-step analysis. We defer to the trial court's factual findings and will affirm them unless clearly erroneous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Robin O'Neill