213 So. 2d 754 - Foreman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1986
13 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 Jackson v. Denno · James Edwards, Jr. v. State of South Carolina · 133 So. 2d 729 - Spencer v. State · I. L. F. Y. Co. v. Temporary State Housing Rent Commission · Young 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Stripped to its very essence, appellant here contends that his word as to whether he was given the prescribed warnings should be given greater weight as a matter of law than that accorded the police officer who testifies that the warnings in question were given. We cannot agree to such notions. We know of no legal principle which requires us to rule that an accused’s refutation of a police officer’s testimony should be binding on the courts of this State. Obviously defendant has little to lose by asserting anything that may lead to his release without regard to its truth or falsity. Persons accused of crime have been known on occasion to exercise a careless disregard for accuracy in relating what happened. Police officers, however, are not so interested in the outcome of a criminal proceeding that it can be said, as appellant would have us rule, that as a matter of law their testimony is unworthy of belief . . . We know of no cases holding that a trial court or jury must believe the defendant’s version of what occurred or which rests such determination on the number of witnesses that either of the parties litigant produces in support of their case. “It is our view that the State has satisfied the burden of showing that the accused was advised of his rights when the officer or other person doing so gives sworn testimony to that effect and, after defendant has had an opportunity to cross examine, the trial judge rules that the confession in question was voluntarily given.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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