State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 1986 · most notably Labat v. Bennett (1966), 107 So. 2d 16 - Frazier v. State (1958)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Pierre v. State of Louisiana · Ziang Sung Wan v. United States · State v. Henry · State v. Anderson · State v. Wilson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the best thing to do is to tell the truth because we have the evidence against you”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The jurisprudence is well settled that a confession will not be excluded because of mere exhortation or adjuration to speak the truth, but such exhortation or adjuration, accompanied by an expression that it would be better for the accused to tell the truth, has been the subject of many conflicting decisions throughout this country. To us the real question in such case is whether the language used in regard to speaking the truth, when taken in connection with the attendant circumstances and with other language spoken in the same or at some prior interview, shows that the confession was made under the influence of some threat or promise, for in such case the confession is inadmissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bueche“free and voluntary, and not made under the influence of fear, duress, intimidation, menaces, threats, inducements or promises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robinson
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.