State v. Truesdale’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004
1 federal appellate · 10 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Doyle v. Ohio · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Central Illinois Public Service Co. 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q. Mr. Powell, just forget that question and go back to where I was before. Do you feel like there would be some circumstances where you could sign a death penalty verdict? A. Yes; probably out of anger. Q. Out of anger. A. Probably, or Q. Okay, Mr Powell, I may be misreading what you said. Of course, if you want to make any explanation are you talking about if the case directly affected you or your family or your loved ones, that in that kind of situation you could find the death penalty? A. Right. Q. Okay. Let's go back then. Let's assume for the moment everybody involved is a stranger to you or at least a non-loved one, a non-family member, a case in which you have no personal involvement. In any case like that, do you think you could sign a verdict giving the death penalty? A. No, I don't believe I could. Q. So when you answered earlier that you could, you were thinking in terms of the case that hit home so to speak. A. Right. Q. The case in which you would have some personal involvement and personal anger over what had happened. A. Right. (Tr. p. 617-618).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Truesdale“The potential for real prejudice from the comment was virtually nil. We cannot say there is a reasonable possibility that this isolated and unsolicited reference to (defendant's) silence contributed in any way to his conviction. We hold that (the police officer's) comment was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. U.S. v. Shaw , at p. 383. (Parenthesis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Truesdale“A. Yes, sir. Q. Up to that point, had you been present during all the questioning of Mr. Truesdale? A. Yes, sir. Q. Had anyone said anything to him about any girl being killed? A. No, sir. Q. Had anyone said anything to him about anybody being killed? A. No, sir. Q. What comment if any or what was your response to his statement about,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Truesdale
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.