Dempsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Batson v. Shiflett (1992), Robeson v. State (1979)
148 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · Sims v. State of Georgia
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court may in its discretion in an exceptional case take cognizance of plain error even though the matter was not raised in the trial court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the Maryland procedure whereby the jury makes the ultimate decision on the voluntariness of a confession, a trial judge’s comment to the jury that he has found the defendant’s confession to be voluntary ‘shows his opinion of a question of fact which the jury is to pass on,’ Coffin v. Brown, supra, 94 Md. at 203 [ 50 A. 567 ], In light of the settled law in this State regarding the proper scope of a trial judge’s comments to the jury upon evidence, it is error for the judge to disclose in the presence of the jury his finding of voluntariness.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hutchinson · Gore v. State““In Bryant [v. State, 229 Md. 531 (1962)], and Mundell [v. State, 244 Md. 91 (1966)], the Court set forth the general principle that evidence of mental impairment from drugs or alcohol does not per se render a confession involuntary, and that a court may admit a confession into evidence if it concludes that it was freely and voluntarily made ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.