Davidson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]rticle 38.22 merely prescribes the various requirements that must be satisfied before a statement made by an accused as a result of custodial interrogation will be admitted against him/her at trial. That such requirements are not met does not mean that the statement was necessarily obtained as a result of any legal or constitutional violation ...”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Nonn v. State · Nonn v. State

2. “Considerations of efficiency and convenience require that questions relating to the admissibility of evidence, whether oral or otherwise, should usually be determined by the local law of the forum; the trial judge must make most eviden-tiary decisions with dispatch if the trial is to proceed with reasonable celerity, and should therefore generally apply the local evidentiary law of his own state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vega v. State

3. “(a) No oral or sign language statement of an accused made as a result of custodial interrogation shall be admissible against the accused in a criminal proceeding unless: (1) an electronic recording, which may include motion picture, video tape, or other visual recording, is made of the statement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davidson v. State