Henson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) whether the police activity was `objectively coercive'; (2) whether the coercion overbore the will of the defendant; and (3) whether the defendant showed that the coercive police activity was the `crucial motivating factor' behind the defendant's confession.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. Commonwealth · Stephen Sykes v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

2. “Appellant failed to argue before the trial court that his confession was inadmissible for the reason he now alleges on appeal, and we are not at liberty to review alleged errors when the issue was not presented to the trial court for decision.”); Reg. Jail Authority v. Tackett, 770 S.W.2d 225, 228 (Ky.1989) (”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carrier v. Commonwealth · Henderson v. Commonwealth

3. “[t]o determine whether a confession is the result of coercion, one must look at the totality of the circumstances to assess whether police obtained evidence by overbearing the defendant's will through making credible threats.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shively v. Commonwealth