Powell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
2
states following
January 1958
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chappell v. Commonwealth · Moore v. Commonwealth · Postell v. Commonwealth · Bolin v. Commonwealth · Hall v. Commonwealth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our Anti-sweating Act, as well as those of other jurisdictions, are intended to exclude and make incompetent confessions obtained by officers or, perhaps, others in authority through the application or exercise of most highly improper means or methods, amounting to duress ot putting in fear, or the offering of inducements or temptations or otherwise, causing the confessor to make them from motives other than by his own voluntary will. Such statutes were never intended to exclude any and all confessions made to officers; but only such as were obtained through the means denounced by the statutes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Karl v. Commonwealth
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.