State v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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

1. ““When the State proposes to offer in evidence the defend ant’s confession or admission, and the defendant objects, the proper procedure is for the trial judge to excuse the jury and, in its absence, hear the evidence, both that of the State and that of the defendant, upon the question of the voluntariness of the statement. In the light of such evidence and of his observation of the demeanor of the witnesses, the judge must resolve the question of whether the defendant, if he made the statement, made it voluntarily and with understanding. [Citations omitted.] The trial judge should make findings of fact with reference to this question and incorporate those findings in the record. Such findings of fact, so made by the trial judge, are conclusive if they are supported by competent evidence in the record.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Edwards

2. “To make a prisoner listen to an accuser with the admonition that if he talks or doesn’t talk—to be damned if he does, and to be damned if he doesn’t—is to put him in an impossible position. It violates the rights of the captive audience, which constitutes reversible error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hogan

3. “he [the defendant] was advised by the officers that anything he said or did not say in response to anything said by Margaret Campbell could be used for or against him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Castor