Jackson v. Denno’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2,641 federal appellate · 237 district · 6,422 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,726 later decisions (236 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Chapman v. State of California (1967)
2,641 federal appellate · 237 district · 6,422 state decisions — followed in 50 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 ex rel. Jackson v. Denno (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Townsend v. Sain · Rochin v. People of California · Malloy v. Hogan
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Townsend v. Sain · Sims v. State of Georgia
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 10,726 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant in a criminal case is deprived of due process of law if his conviction is founded, in whole or in part, upon an involuntary confession, without regard for the truth or falsity of the confession, and even though there is ample evidence aside from the confession to support the conviction.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a proceeding separate and apart from the body trying guilt or innocence.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lufkins v. Solem · Ewing v. Horton“fully adequate to insure a reliable and clear-cut determination of the voluntariness of the confession, including the resolution of disputed facts upon which the voluntariness issue may depend.”
31 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.