State v. Crittenden’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably State v. Maney (1961), State v. Bueche (1962)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 State v. Henry · State v. Roberson · State v. Ross · State v. Ellis. · State v. Oteri
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before what purposes (purports) to be a confession can be introduced in evidence, it must be affirmatively shown that it was free and voluntary, and not made under the influence of fear, duress, intimidation, menaces, threats, inducements or promises.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bueche““No person under arrest shall be subjected to any treatment designed by effect on body or mind to compel confession of crime; nor shall any confession be used against any person accused of crime unless freely and voluntarily made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bueche“My line of questioning had to do with telling him [the defendant] that it would be made lighter on him if he told the truth”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heideman v. Kessel
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.