Ward v. State of Texas’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 547 · 1942
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 3 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 293 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
80 federal appellate · 3 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Brown v. State of Mississippi · Chambers v. Florida · Ziang Sung Wan v. United States · White v. Texas
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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of moving an ignorant Negro by night and day to strange towns, telling him of threats of mob violence, and questioning him continuously is evident from petitioner’s statement to County Attorney Rolston that he would be glad to make any statement that Rolston desired. Disregarding petitioner’s claims that he was whipped and burned, we must conclude that this confession was not free and voluntary but was the product of coercion and duress, that petitioner was no longer able freely to admit or to deny or to refuse to answer, and that he was willing to make any statement that the officers wanted him to make. “This Court has set aside convictions based upon confessions extorted from ignorant persons who have been subjected to persistent and protracted questioning, or who have been threatened with mob violence, or who have been unlawfully held incommunicado without advice of friends or counsel, or who have been taken at night to lonely and isolated places for questioning. Any one of these grounds would be sufficient cause for reversal. All of them are to be found in this case. “The use of a confession obtained under such circumstances is a denial of due process and the judgment of conviction must be reversed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we cannot be precluded by the verdict of a jury from determining whether the circumstances under which the confession was made were such that its admission in evidence amounts to a denial of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The person making the arrest must immediately take the person arrested before the magistrate if the arrest is made without a warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.