Mack v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Chisley v. State (1953), Hester v. State (1974)
4 federal appellate · 96 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hauk v. State · Miller v. State · Williams v. State · State v. Comer · Keyes 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The securing of voluntary confessions from guilty criminals is to be desired, and the reasonable examination of prisoners charged with or suspected of crime is and should be allowed in the interest of public welfare and safety, but such examinations should be kept within proper bounds. The law protects persons charged with crime from ill or unjust treatment, and cruel and brutal methods should never be tolerated. Bonahoon v. State (1931) 203 Ind. 51 , 178 N. E. 570 . ...” “Confessions and admissions made voluntarily, or under inducements other than fears produced by physical violence, threats, intimidation or undue influence are admissible in evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caudill v. State““. . . but the granting of the motion is within the sound discretion of the court, and the inquiry on appeal must be as to whether the court by its action abused that discretion. It is proper, in that connection, to take into account the question of the delay already had at the time the motion was filed, the question of cause shown, and the question as .to whether or not the substantial rights of the appellant were prejudiced by the court’s ruling.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Breedlove v. State““The confession of a defendant made under inducement, with all the circumstances, may be given in evidence against him, except when made under the influence of fear produced by threats or by intimidation or undue influence; but a confession made under inducement is not sufficient to warrant a conviction without corroborating evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Suter 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.