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← 278 Ala. 145 - Duncan v. State

Duncan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

362
cited by 362 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
11
states following
August 2013
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 356 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 362 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Boykin v. Alabama (1969), Lego v. Twomey (1972)

2 federal appellate · 356 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Mapp v. Ohio · Johnson v. United States · Weeks v. United States

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

  1. “"If there is no request expressly made by counsel for the defendant that the hearing on the issue of the voluntariness of the confession be heard in the absence of the jury, we think, nevertheless, that the trial court should on [its] own action require such a hearing to be held if there is to be any conflict in the testimony, and particularly when the defendant desires to take the stand...."”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. ““When a police officer arrests without a warrant, and the defendant objects to the introduction of evidence claimed to be incident to such an arrest, the burden is on the State to show that the arrest was lawful. Knox v. State [ 42 Ala.App. 578 , 172 So.2d 787 ]. * * *””
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. ““Arrest by officer without warrant; when and for what allowed. — An officer may also arrest any person, without warrant, on any day and at any time, for any public offense committed, or a breach of the peace threatened in his presence; or when a felony has been committed, though not in his presence, by the person arrested, or when a felony has been committed, and he has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested committed it; or when he has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested has committed a felony, although it may afterwards appear that a felony had not in fact been committed; or on a charge made, upon reasonable cause, that the person arrested has committed a felony.””
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.