Lynumn v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
415 federal appellate · 115 district · 610 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,438 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Chapman v. State of California (1967)
415 federal appellate · 115 district · 610 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.
Relationships
Relies on Blackburn v. Alabama · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Haley v. Ohio · Chambers v. Florida · Watts v. Indiana
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Haynes v. Washington · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Culombe v. Connecticut
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 1,438 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the defendant's will was overborne at the time he confessed.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even though there may have been sufficient evidence, apart from the coerced confession, to support a judgment of conviction, the admission in evidence, over objection, of the coerced confession vitiates the judgment because it violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'could get 10 years and (that) the children could be taken away'”
2 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.