State v. Pruitt’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Wallace (2000), State v. Gainey (2002)
134 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 · Griffin v. California · Blackburn v. Alabama · Davis v. North Carolina · Kennedy v. Powell
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any improper inducement generating hope must promise relief from the criminal charge to which the confession relates, not to any merely collateral advantage.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An absolute rule requiring exclusion of statements to law enforcement officers by a defendant in custody and who did not assert his right to counsel has been applied only in those cases in which the officers failed to comply with procedural safeguards required by Miranda. In cases in which the requirements of Miranda have been met and the defendant has not asserted the right to have counsel present during questioning, no single circumstance may be viewed in isolation as rendering a confession the product of improperly induced hope or fear and, therefore, involuntary. In those cases the court must proceed to determine whether the statement made by the defendant was in fact voluntarily and understandingly made, which is the ultimate test of the admissibility of a confession. In determining whether a defendant's statement was in fact voluntarily and understandingly made, the court must consider the totality of the circumstances of the case and may not rely upon any one circumstance standing alone and in isolation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Thomas“it would simply be harder on him if he didn't go ahead and cooperate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Jackson
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.