State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trial judge determines the admissibility of a statement upon proof of its voluntariness by a preponderance of the evidence. If admitted, the jury must then determine whether the statement was given freely and voluntarily beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson

2. “When reviewing a trial court's ruling concerning voluntariness, this [c]ourt does not reevaluate the facts based on its own view of the preponderance of the evidence, but simply determines whether the trial court's ruling is supported by any evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson

3. “Multiple agencies participated in the investigation and manhunt including the highway patrol, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Colleton County Sheriff's Department, and the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Balzaga v. Fox News Network, LLC