State v. Ussery’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1983
23 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 State v. Nolan · State v. Batson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Ussery himself removed any objection to admitting the confessions in evidence by testifying to the matters contained in them, thus confirming their truth. Involuntary confessions are rejected as evidence because they are regarded as testimonially unreliable and untrustworthy . . . Yet when the truth of a confession is established by the very person who made it under oath in open court, he may not be permitted to claim error because of the use of the confession on the ground it was involuntary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Petrik · State v. Cooper
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.