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Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
4
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably West v. Johnson (1996), Norton v. State (1980)

3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

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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 Smith v. United States · Shotwell Manufacturing Company v. United States · Ortiz v. State · Pirtle v. State · Weaver v. American Oil Company

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

  1. “"The question of the admissibility of a confession is controlled by determining from the totality of circumstances, whether or not it was made voluntarily. The circumstances to be considered include whether the confession was freely self-determined, the product of a rational intellect and free will, without compulsion or inducement, and whether the accused's will was overborne. Murphy v. State, (1977) 267 Ind. 184, 190 , 369 N.E.2d 411, 415 , We review the question on appeal as we do other sufficiency matters. We do not weigh the evidence, but rather determine whether there was substantial probative evidence to support the trial court's finding. Works v. State, (1977) 266 Ind. 250 , 362 N.E.2d 144 . We will not disturb a trial court's ruling on the admissibility of a confession when such ruling is based on substantial, though conflicting evidence. Riggs v. State, (1976) 264 Ind. 263, 270 , 342 N.E.2d 838, 843 ."”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “that they did not constitute an inducement sufficient to render the confession involuntary. Similarly, in Harrison v. State, (1978) Ind., 382 N.E.2d 920 , the prosecutor informed the defendant that his cooperation”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “You should not indulge in purely speculative and hypercritical doubts, and the bare possibility that the defendant may be innocent does not raise a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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