Chambers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Drollinger v. State (1980), Wagner v. State (1985)
58 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 Ortiz v. State · Murphy v. State · Nacoff v. State · Works v. State · Strickland 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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.... 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. ... 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 .... ” (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Lewis v. State“rights. The admissibility of a statement is controlled by determining, from the totality of the circumstances, whether or not it was made voluntarily. The same test determines whether a waiver of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wagner v. State
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.