Peterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. “"Where the voluntariness of a defendant's statement has been challenged and coercion has been alleged, must the trial judge specifically state on the record that he finds the statement to be voluntary before permitting the confession to be submitted to the jury?"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 382 So. 2d 701 - Peterson v. State · 408 So. 2d 724 - Tuff v. State

2. “considered the totality of the circumstances and the testimony in the proffer,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 408 So. 2d 724 - Tuff v. State