Pass v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Gregg v. Georgia (1976), Hicks v. State (1974)
78 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Henderson 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plea of guilty is but a confession of guilt in open court and a waiver of trial. . . . [I]t ought to be scanned with care and received with caution. The judge is not bound to receive such a plea at all, and in capital cases frequently declines to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. State“shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gregg v. Georgia
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.