Bean v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 365 - People v. Lara (1967), 39 Ill. 2d 489 - The PEOPLE v. Hester (1968)
95 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 McNabb v. United States · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Mallory v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Culombe v. Connecticut
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule regarding the admissibility of a confession is that the State must prove that it was freely and voluntarily-given and that it was not the product of force or of a promise, threat or inducement whereby the accused might be led to believe that there would be a partial or total abandonment of prosecution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.