Swenson v. Stidham’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Sumner v. Mata (1981), 54 Cal. 4th 668 - People v. Lightsey (2012)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedJames William Stidham v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Sigler v. Parker · State v. Stidham
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This, of course, does not end the matter. A state prisoner is free to resort to federal habeas corpus with the claim that, contrary to a state court's judgment, his confession was involuntary and inadmissible as a matter of law. Neither the District Court nor the Court of Appeals reached this issue. We are asked to decide the question here but it is not our function to deal with this issue in the first instance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Jackson v. Denno error, if any, was sufficiently remedied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moreover, the United States Supreme Court has held: Even if the trial procedure was flawed with respect to the challenged confession, Jackson v. Denno does not entitled [a defendant] to a new trial if the State subsequently provided him an error-free judicial determination of the voluntariness of his confession — error-free in that the determination was procedurally adequate and substantively acceptable under the Due Process Clause. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boykin
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.