Ziang Sung Wan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 1 · 1924
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 402 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
168 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Bram v. United States
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 402 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A confession may have been given voluntarily, although it was made to police officers, while in custody, and in answer to an examination conducted by them.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] confession obtained by compulsion must be excluded whatever may have been the character of the compulsion, and whether the compulsion was applied in a judicial proceeding or otherwise”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he undisputed facts showed that compulsion was applied. As to that matter there was no issue upon which the jury could properly have been required or permitted to pass. The alleged oral statements and the written confession should have been excluded.”
2 later decisions 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.