Curry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably Nickels v. State (1925), Burns v. State (1932)
2 federal appellate · 77 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 United States v. Josef Perez · Logan v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Thompson v. United States · Brister v. State
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled law that when a confession is offered in evidence against a defendant in criminal trial, the duty devolves upon the court to ascertain and declare by its ruling whether or not such confession was free and voluntary. When confessions have been admitted as evidence against a defendant’s objection, the presumption is in favor of the correctness of the ruling of the trial court, on appeal, and reversal will not be had because of the admission of such evidence, unless the record affirmatively shows that manifest error was committed in the admission of such evidence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fincher v. State · Morton v. State““Any, the slightest menace, or threat, or any hope engendered or encouraged that the prisoner’s case will -be lightened, meliorated, or more favorably dealt with, if he will confess — either of these is enough to exclude the confession thereby superinduced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fincher v. State
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.