State v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 1979 · most notably 8 Ill. 2d 293 - Belfield v. Coop (1956), State v. Spica (1965)
39 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State v. Butts · State v. Gibilterra · 123 Pa. Super. 277 - Commonwealth v. Clark · Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad v. Anderson · State v. White
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The principie involved in the saim* as that, in reia tiiai of the adniicability of talking motion pictures, In People v. Hayes, 21 Cal. App. 2d 320 , 71 P. 2d 321, 322 , a sound motion picture of the defendant making a confession to the police was reproduced to the jury over the objection that the reception of such evidence was preju-dicially erroneous to the defendant and this was the single point in the case. In upholding the conviction, the court said that such reproduction ‘Stands on the same basis as the presentation in court of a confession through any orthodox mechanical medium, that is, there is a preliminary question to be determined by the trial judge as to whether or not the sound moving picture is an accurate reproduction of that which it is alleged occurred. If after a preliminary examination, the trial judge is satisfied that the sound moving picture reproduces accurately that which has been said and done, and the other requirements relative to the admissibility of a confession are present, i. e., it was freely and voluntarily made without hope of immunity or promise of reward, then, not only should the preliminary foundation and the sound moving picture go to the jury, but, in' keeping with the policy of the courts to avail themselves of each and every aid of science for the purpose of ascertaining the truth, such practice is to be commended as of inestimable value to triers of fact in reaching accurate conclusions. “ ‘This particular case well illustrates the”
2 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.