State v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably DeYoung v. State (1997), Taylor v. State (2001)
42 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mincey v. Arizona · Malloy v. Hogan · Jones v. State · Bright 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile deceit may not on its own render a statement inadmissible (where not calculated to procure an untrue statement), we hold that in looking to the totality of the circumstances, see Reinhardt v. State, 263 Ga. 113, 115 (3) (b) ( 428 SE2d 333 ) (1993), the employment of deceit may result in the inadmissibility of a statement in those situations where the particular deception used, by constituting a “slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury” under OCGA § 24-3-50, has induced a party to confess, thereby rendering the confession involuntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. State · Moss v. State“Under Georgia law, only voluntary incriminating statements are admissible against the accused at trial. OCGA § 24-3-50. When not made freely and voluntarily, a confession is presumed to be legally false and cannot be the underlying basis of a conviction. [Cit.] To make a confession admissible, it must have been made voluntarily, i.e., “without being induced by another by the slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury.” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ray“[a] reward of lighter punishment is generally the `hope of benefit' to which OCGA § 24-3-50 refers,”
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.