State v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Stager (1991), State v. White (1995)
125 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 · Avery v. State of Alabama · Keeble v. United States · First Investment Annuity Co. of America v. Miller · Fowler v. North Carolina
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An equally well-established rule, however, is that when a motion raises a constitutional issue, the trial court’s action upon it involves a question of law which is fully reviewable by an examination of the particular circumstances presented by the record on appeal of each case.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he denial of a motion to continue, even when the motion raises a constitutional issue, is grounds for a new trial only upon a showing by the defendant that the denial was erroneous and also that his case was prejudiced as a result of the error.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statement by investigating law enforcement officers that a suspect’s relatives will be released from custody or not be arrested if the suspect confesses may, under the totality of the circumstances, render the suspect’s confession involuntary. It is generally recognized, however, that a confession is “involuntary” in the constitutional sense in such cases only when it was produced by wrongful pressure applied by law enforcement officials or others acting for them. Confessions or admissions have not been held inadmissible in evidence merely because the accused in making the confession or admission was motivated by a desire to protect a relative threatened with arrest or in custody when such motivation originated with the accused and was not suggested by law enforcement officials.”
3 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.