Suter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Smith v. State (1971), Bays v. State (1959)
64 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Berger v. New York · Watts v. Indiana · Mack v. State · Harness v. Steele
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until his inculpatory statements were secured, the petitioner was a prisoner in the exclusive control of the prosecuting authorities. . . . Although the law of Indiana required that petitioner be given a prompt preliminary hearing before a magistrate, with all the protection a hearing was intended to give him, the petitioner was not only given no hearing during the entire period of interrogation but was without friendly or professional aid and without advice as to his constitutional rights. Disregard of rudimentary needs of life — opportunities for sleep and a decent allowance of food — are also relevant, not as aggravating elements of petitioner’s treatment, but as part of the total situation out of which his confessions came and which stamped their character. “. . . A statement to be voluntary of course need not be volunteered. But if it is the product of sustained pressure by the police it does not issue from a free choice. When a suspect speaks because he is overborne, it is immaterial whether he has been subjected to a physical or mental ordeal. Eventual yielding to questioning under such circumstances is plainly the product of the suction process of interrogation and therefore the reverse of voluntary. “The very relentlessness of such interrogation implies that it is better for the prisoner to answer than to persist in the refusal of disclosure which is his constitutional right. To turn the detention oían accused into a process of wrenching from him evidence which coul”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. State““. . . it is not necessary [in a burglary affidavit] to state the kind or value of the goods intended to be stolen.” [Citing-cases] .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No person arrested, or confined in jail, shall be treated with unnecessary rigor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grier 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.