Neal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably Lockhart v. McCree (1986), Collins v. State (1977)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Davis v. North Carolina · United States v. Petrillo
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Whenever the voluntariness of a defendant’s confession is disputed on federal constitutional grounds, we make an independent determination from a review of the entire record. Degler v. State, 257 Ark. 388 , 517 S.W. 2d 515 (1974); Davis v. North Carolina, 384 U.S. 737 , 86 S. Ct. 1761 ; 16 L. Ed. 2d 895 (1966); and Harris v. State, 244 Ark. 314 , 425 S.W. 2d 293 (1968). In doing so, however, we do not set aside a trial court’s finding of voluntariness unless the finding is “clearly erroneous.” Degler v. State, supra. This standard of review is in accord with that of the federal courts. United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 333 U.S. 364 (1948), and Maple Island Farm v. Bitterling, 209 F. 2d 867 (8th Cir. 1954).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodard v. State“The Constitution has erected procedural safeguards to protect against conviction for crime except for violation of law which have clearly defined conduct thereafter to be punished; but the Constitution does not require impossible standards. The language here challenged conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices. The Constitution requires no more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harmon v. State“*** Appellant, aided by another man during the robbery of a service station attendant, bound the victim’s hands and feet and then shot him. After leaving the station they returned a short time later and, upon discovering the wounded attendant using the phone, the appellant shot him again. Death resulted from a total of seven pistol wounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal 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.