Pinto v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 9 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 296 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Wainwright v. Sykes (1977), Gannett Co Inc v. A (1979)
111 federal appellate · 9 district · 129 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Carignan · State v. Broxton · Fort v. City of Miami
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 296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * because a disputed confession may be found involuntary and inadmissible by the judge, it would seem prudent to hold voluntariness hearings outside the presence of the jury.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watkins v. Sowders · State v. Soliz“Jackson v. Denno means that the judge and the jury must each make an independent judgment of voluntariness of an admission, the judge for purposes of admissibility and the jury for evidentiary acceptability, credibility, and weight. A telescoped hearing before judge and jury, in which the judge finds voluntariness for purposes of admissibility, in reality reduces the jury function to an echo. Hearing the evidence simultaneously with the judge, the jury is not apt to approach disagreement with him.... [This procedure], by reducing the effectiveness of the jury, gravely impairs the constitutional principle of excluding involuntary confessions which Jackson v. Denno sought to serve. The jury is the traditional and preferred arbiter of facts. The procedure countenanced here, by dicta, sanctions, in effect, a direction to the jury to accept and give full credence to the admission— because the judge, hearing the same testimony, has ruled that the admission is voluntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lufkins v. Solem
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.