2003 WI App 91 - State v. Triggs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Inflating evidence of [the defendant's] guilt interfered little, if at all, with his "free and deliberate choice" of whether to confess, for it did not lead him to consider anything beyond his own beliefs regarding his actual guilt or innocence, his moral sense of right and wrong, and his judgment regarding the likelihood that the police had garnered enough valid evidence linking him to the crime.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 345 Wis. 2d 171 - State v. Lemoine · 333 Wis. 2d 665 - State v. Jackson

2. “[L]ies told by police do not necessarily make a confession involuntary; rather, this is simply one factor to consider out of the totality of the circumstances.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ward · 273 Wis. 2d 785 - State v. Huston

3. “The interrogation of a suspect typically requires some deception; a common form of deception is to exaggerate the strength of the evidence against the suspect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 388 Wis. 2d 256 - State v. Gabriel