State v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Kelsey (1998), State v. Sims (1991)
63 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 · Jackson v. Denno · Bauer v. Waldschmidt · Greene v. Massey · Weingarden 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he burden is on the State to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his rights were voluntarily waived.” State v. Neeley, 271 S.C. 33, 40 , 244 S.E.2d 522, 526 (1978) (Emphasis supplied). “[T]he prosecution must prove ... by a preponderance of the evidence that the [statement] was voluntary.” Lego v. Twomey, 404 U.S. 477, 489 , 92 S.Ct. 619 , 30 L.Ed.2d 618 (1972) (Emphasis supplied). See also Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157 , 107 S.Ct. 515 , 93 L.Ed.2d 473 (1986); State v. Middleton, 295 S.C. 318 , 368 S.E.2d 457 (1988); In re Christopher W., 285 S.C. 329 , 329 S.E.2d 769 (Ct.App.1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller“The trial judge is required to submit the case to the jury if there is `any substantial evidence which reasonably tends to prove the guilt of the accused, or from which his guilt may fairly and logically be deduced.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arnold
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.