Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1990
18 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Draper v. United States · Anonymous Nos. 16 & 17 v. Arkwright · Felkner v. State · Hall 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cases make it clear that oral as well as written confessions, if freely and voluntarily given, are admissible, as evidence. See among others, Cooper v. State, 205 Md. 162 , 106 A. 2d 129 (1954), cert. den. 348 U. S. 896 (1954); Felkner v. State, 218 Md. 300 , 146 A. 2d 424 (1958); Hall v. State, 223 Md. 158 , 162 A. 2d 751 (1960); Glaros v. State, 223 Md. 272 , 164 A. 2d 461 (1960) ; Bagley v. State, 232 Md. 86 , 192 A. 2d 53 (1963). And the fact that a confession is oral does not impose on the State an additional burden to prove its voluntary character. Williams v. State, 231 Md. 83 , 188 A. 2d 543 (1963) ; Gault v. State, 231 Md. 78 , 188 A. 2d 539 (1963). (p. 386 of 236 Md., p. 915 of 203 A. 2d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell 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.