State v. Sheffield’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1978
11 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 Gonzales v. Landon · State v. Mattio · State v. Labat · State v. Leming · State v. Roberson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objection to the admissibility of the confession on the ground that the statement itself does not show that all of the rights of the accused party were made known to him at the commencement of the taking of the statement, or that the accused was informed that at the time of giving the statement he was entitled to have a lawyer of his own choosing present, or that the court would be required to appoint a lawyer to assist him in the defense of his case is without merit. “An examination of the written confession shows that the accused party was fully informed of all of his rights. Further, the evidence taken on the hearing to determine whether or not the confession was admissible abundantly shows that the accused was informed by the district attorney that his statement would be used against him, both at the grand jury investigation of the matter and in court at the trial of the case if he was indicted, notwithstanding that the accused is not entitled to be informed that a voluntary confession might or will be used against him. State v. McGuire, 146 La. 49 , 83 So. 374 ; State v. Burks, 196 La. 374 , 199 So. 220 ; State v. Byrd, 214 La. 713 , 38 So.2d 395 ; State v. Alleman, 218 La. 821 , 51 So.2d 83 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rideau““ * * * Written confessions to be admissible in evidence against the accused need not be in any particular form nor in exact language of the accused but are sufficient if the substance of the accused’s statement is taken down. State v. Brasseaux, 163 La. 686 , 112 So. 650 .” State v. Sheffield, 232 La. 53 , 93 So.2d 691 . See, State v. Howard, 238 La. 595 , 116 So.2d 43 ; 361 U.S. 875 , 80 S.Ct. 138 , 4 L.Ed.2d 113 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McAllister
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.