State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986 · most notably Culombe v. Connecticut (1961), Chisley v. State (1953)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 McNabb v. United States · Haley v. Ohio · Chambers v. Florida · Wilson v. United States · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A confession is not rendered inadmissible solely by reason of a delay in taking the arrested person before a magistrate but that circumstance becomes an important factor to be given serious consideration in determining whether or not the confession was voluntarily made. The mere failure to follow the procedural rule, however, does not of itself destroy the voluntariness of the confession if the abuses the rule seeks to prevent did not in fact take place.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Benbo““The fear that arises out of a consciousness of guilt and a dread of the legal penalty which probably will and ought to fall is not the kind that will invalidate an otherwise voluntary confession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper“without unnecessary delay, before the nearest available magistrate.”
1 later decision 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.