Slaten v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1995
20 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Guenther v. State · Womack v. State · 55 Ala. App. 5 - Bass v. State · 42 Ala. App. 567 - Horsley v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he only thing said by [the officer] that could be construed as an offer or promise to help pertained to his statement to the effect that he would ask or tell Mr. Bill Thornton of the Mental Health Department to confer with defendant. We are convinced that his statement to defendant did not constitute any offer or promise conditioned upon the incriminating statement or confession. We have no reason to discount the following in his testimony: `Q: You used the words I'll help you, didn't you, when you were talking to him, I'll help you out? A: No, sir, I told him that if he did do this something was wrong with him. I would get him some help. Q: All right. Now, the help that you were talking about, you don't know what he understood, do you? A: I told him I would tell Bill Thornton of the Mental Health Department, I told him I would get him over there. Q: You also told him you would help him, is that correct, Larry? A: Yes, sir, that is correct. Q: And then you talked about the Mental Health Clinic, is that correct? A: No, sir, we were talking about the Mental Health Clinic when we were talking about helping him. Q: Did you ever say these words, I will help you, if you will tell me what happened? A: No, sir.' [emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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