Fillinger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Roberts (1993), Black v. State (1993)
27 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 Bram v. United States · Blackburn v. Alabama · Shotwell Manufacturing Company v. United States · 107 So. 2d 16 - Frazier v. State · 294 So. 2d 54 - State v. Chorpenning
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"if the interrogator induces the accused to confess by using language which amounts to a threat or a promise of benefit, then the confession may be untrustworthy and should be excluded."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`But a confession, in order to be admissible must be free and voluntary; that is, must not be extracted by any sort of threats or violence, nor obtained by any direct or implied promises however slight, nor by the exertion of any improper influence. * * * A confession can never be received in evidence where the prisoner had been influenced by any threat or promise; for the law cannot measure the force of the influence used, or decide upon its effect upon the mind of the prisoner, and therefore excludes the declaration if any degree of influence has been exerted.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“state had failed to carry its burden of proof that the confession was freely and voluntarily made.”
1 later decision 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.