Lee v. State of Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 742 · 1948
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), Rogers v. Richmond (1961)
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Lisenba v. People of State of California · Haley v. Ohio · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Chambers v. Florida · Malinski v. People of State of New York
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction resulting from such use of a coerced confession, however, is no less void because the accused testified at some point in the proceeding that he had never in fact confessed, voluntarily or involuntarily. Testimony of that nature can hardly legalize a procedure which conflicts with the accepted principles of due process. And since our constitutional system permits a conviction to be sanctioned only if in conformity with those principles, inconsistent testimony as to the confession should not and cannot preclude the accused from raising the due process issue in an appropriate manner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the accused had not denied having made any confession at all, we would feel constrained to reverse the conviction ... because”
2 later decisions 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.