Culombe v. Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
775 federal appellate · 201 district · 1,548 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,142 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
775 federal appellate · 201 district · 1,548 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Brown v. Allen · McNabb v. United States · Townsend v. Burke
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Haynes v. Washington · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Davis v. North Carolina
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 3,142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Is the confession the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice by its maker? If it is, if he has willed to confess, it may be used against him. If it is not, if his will has been overborne and his capacity for self-determination critically impaired, the use of his confession offends due process.”
190 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[t]he duty of this Court on appeal is to consider only the evidence of the prosecution's witnesses, and so much of the evidence for the defense as fairly read in the context of the record as a whole remains uncontradicted, and based upon this review, to determine whether the record supports the factual findings of the suppression court and the legitimacy of the inferences and the legal conclusions drawn from those findings." (citations omitted).”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Aguilar v. State · Com. v. Dixon“The notion of 'voluntariness' is itself an amphibian.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.