Payne v. Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
476 federal appellate · 54 district · 691 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,535 later decisions (103 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Chapman v. State of California (1967)
476 federal appellate · 54 district · 691 state decisions — followed in 47 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 · Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Chambers v. Florida
Cited together with Chapman v. State of California · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Gideon v. Wainwright · Jackson v. Denno
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 1,535 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Respondent suggests that, apart from the confession, there was adequate evidence before the jury to sustain the verdict. But where, as here, a coerced confession constitutes a part of the evidence before the jury and a general verdict is returned, no one can say what credit and weight the jury gave to the confession. And in these circumstances this Court has uniformly held that even though there may have been sufficient evidence, apart from the coerced confession, to support a judgment of conviction, the admission in evidence, over objection, of the coerced confession vitiates the judgment because it violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there would be 30 or 40 people there in a few minutes that wanted to get him”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibbs v. State · Payne v. State“It seems obvious from the totality of this course of conduct, and particularly the culminating threat of mob violence, that the confession was coerced and did not constitute an 'expression of free choice'”
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.