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← 286 Ga. 608 - Canty v. State

Canty v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
May 2020
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Ritter · Brown v. State · State v. Ray · Preston v. State · Eller 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “much more than simply [saying] that his cooperation would be made known to the prosecution [or judge]. He was told that confessing to the crime [w]ould result in [not being charged at all.] This is exactly the hope of benefit which is prohibited under Georgia law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Under Georgia law, only voluntary incriminating statements are admissible against the accused at trial, and the State has the burden of proving the voluntariness of a confession by a preponderance of the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “in exchange for his confession); Turner v. State , 203 Ga. 770 , 771 (2), 48 S.E.2d 522 (1948) (confession inadmissible after defendant told it would be”
    1 later decision 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.