387 So. 2d 855 - Eakes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987), 555 So. 2d 780 - Ex Parte Siebert (1989)
98 state decisions
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 Townsend v. Sain · Massiah v. United States · Malloy v. Hogan · Brewer v. Williams · Bram v. United States
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 98 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”
23 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Johnson · Hadley v. State“A promise or inducement for a confession cannot be implied from an exhortation to a prisoner that it is best or better to tell the truth.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) confession is not rendered involuntary by a promise of benefit that was solicited freely and voluntarily by the accused.”
3 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.