Reck v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
360 federal appellate · 67 district · 380 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,078 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
360 federal appellate · 67 district · 380 state decisions — followed in 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. Emil Reck, Relator-Appellant v. Joseph E. Ragen, Warden (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Rogers v. Richmond · Blackburn v. Alabama · Spano v. People of the State of New York
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Culombe v. Connecticut · Haley v. Ohio · Haynes v. Washington · Fikes v. State of Alabama
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 1,078 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the blood of the accused is not the only hallmark of an unconstitutional inquisition.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““At the time of his arrest Reck was a nineteen-year-old youth of subnormal intelligence. He had no prior criminal record or experience with the police. He was held nearly eight days without a judicial hearing. Four of those days preceded his first confession. During that period Reck was subjected each day to six- or seven-hour stretches of relentless and incessant interrogation. The questioning was conducted by groups of officers. For the first three days the interrogation ranged over a wide variety of crimes. On the night of the third day of his detention the interrogation turned to the crime for which petitioner stands convicted. During this same four-day period he was shuttled back and forth between police stations and interrogation rooms. In addition, Reck was intermittently placed on public exhibition in ‘show-ups.’ On the night before his confession, petitioner became ill while on display in such a ‘show-up.’ He was taken to the hospital, returned to the police station and put back on public display. When he again became ill he was removed from the ‘show-up,’ but interrogation in the windowless ‘handball court’ continued relentlessly until he grew faint and vomited blood on the floor. Once more he was taken to the hospital, where he spent the night under the influence of drugs. The next morning he was removed from the hospital in a wheel chair, and intensive interrogation was immediately resumed. Some eight hours later Reck signed his first confession. The next afternoo”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kysar · Lane v. State“requires more than a mere color-matching of cases,”
4 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.