Downs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1977 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), Sims v. State of Georgia (1967)
26 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 Strickland v. State · Kyle v. Huiet · Edmonds v. State · Bradberry v. State · Perry 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The State having made out a prima facie case that the alleged confession was freely and voluntarily made, it was a question for the jury to determine on conflicting evidence whether the alleged confession was freely and voluntarily made.” Downs v. State, 208 Ga. 619 , 68 S.E.2d 568 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell 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.