State v. Helmenstein’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2020
8 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · City of Fairgo v. Thompson · State v. Leidholm · State v. Purdy
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) the characteristics and condition of the accused at the time of the consent, including age, sex, race, education level, physical or mental condition, and prior experience with police; and (2) the details of the setting in which the consent was obtained, including the duration and conditions of detention, police attitude toward the defendant, and the diverse pressures that sap the accused's powers of resistance or self control."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torkelsen · State v. Genre“The test of custody is formal arrest or a restraint on freedom of movement of the degree associated with a formal arrest. The custody test is objective and does not depend on the arresting officer’s subjective motive or thoughts. ... When evaluating whether a person was in custody, the only relevant inquiry is how a reasonable man in the suspect’s position would have understood his situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Haibeck“`[B]ecause the [district] court is in a superior position to judge credibility and weight, we show great deference to the [] court's determination of voluntariness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torkelsen
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.