Sheets v. Butera’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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

1. “Obviously, interrogation of a suspect will involve some pressure because its pur pose is to elicit a confession. In order to obtain the desired result, interrogators use a laundry list of tactics. Numerous cases have held that questioning tactics such as a raised voice, deception, or a sympathetic attitude on the part of the interrogator will not render a confession involuntary unless the overall impact of the interrogation caused the defendant’s will to be overborne.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Sanchez

2. “[C]onduct intended to injure in some way unjustifiable by any government interest is the sort of official action most likely to rise to the conscience-shocking level.” Id. (quoting County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833, 849 , 118 S.Ct. 1708 , 140 L.Ed.2d 1043 (1998)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. Smith

3. “the degree of police coercion, the length of the interrogation, its location, its continuity, and the defendant's maturity, education, physical condition, and mental condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Iyamu