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Kerrigan v. Scafati’s Empirical Analysis

364 F.2d 759 · 1966

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
May 1976
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Our task, therefore, is to apply a ‘substantive test of voluntariness’, drawing on pre-Escobedo and ^re-Miranda case law on coerced confessions, to determine whether petitioner in this case has been ‘found guilty by trustworthy evidence in conformity with previously announced constitutional standards.’ Johnson v. New Jersey, supra.” Kerrigan v. Scafati, 364 F.2d 759 (July 20, 1966).”
    3 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.