State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Gray (1966)
121 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Escobedo v. Illinois · Massiah v. United States · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Haynes v. Washington
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the establishment of a factual background by which to determine whether a confession meets the tests of admissibility, the trial court must make the findings of fact. When the facts so found are supported by competent evidence, they are conclusive on appellate courts, both State and Federal. State v. Outing, 255 N.C. 468 , 121 S.E. 2d 847 ; State v. Davis, 253 N.C. 86 , 116 S.E. 2d 365 ; certiorari denied, 365 U.S. 855 ; Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49 ; Lyons v. Oklahoma, 322 U.S. 596 ; Lisenba v. California, 314 U.S. 219 . Of course, the conclusions of law to be drawn from the facts found are not binding on the reviewing courts. In Watts , the principle is stated concisely: ‘(I)n all the cases which have come here . . . from the courts of the various states in which it was claimed that the admission of coerced confessions vitiated convictions for murder, there has been complete agreement that any conflict in testimony as to what actually led to a contested confession is not this Court’s concern. Such conflict comes here authoritatively resolved by the State’s adjudication.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barber · State v. Adcock“When the State offers a confession in a criminal trial and the defendant objects on the ground it was not voluntary, the question thus raised is determined by the judge in a preliminary inquiry in the absence of the jury. * * * The trial judge hears the evidence, observes the demeanor of the witnesses and resolves the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barber“However, in the construction of the provision of the State Constitution, the meaning given by the Supreme Court of the United States to even an identical term in the Constitution of the United States is, though highly persuasive, not binding upon this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.