State v. Agnello’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2020
12 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 Colorado v. Connelly · Haynes v. Washington · Rogers v. Richmond · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Chambers v. Florida
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]oercive police activity is a necessary predicate to the finding that a confession is not voluntary within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, but coercive activity does not, in and of itself, establish involuntariness.... [A] trial court should not undertake the balancing analysis [between personal characteristics and coercive police activity] unless some improper or coercive police conduct has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzalez“The ultimate determination of whether a confession is voluntary under the totality of the circumstances standard requires the court to balance the personal characteristics of the defendant against the pressures imposed upon him by police in order to induce him to respond to the questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzalez
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.