Sellers v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 1002 · 1969
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1981
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Pearce · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant also contends that the trial court erred in not holding a hearing to determine whether her “confession” to the agents was voluntary. Jackson v. Denno, 1964, 378 U. S. 368 , 84 S.Ct. 1774 , 12 L.Ed.2d 908 . Suffice it to say that voluntariness was never put in issue. Not only was there no objection but there was no way the trial court could have been aware that the voluntariness of her oral statements to the agents was questioned. See 378 U.S. at 374 , 84 S.Ct. 1774 . There must be a limit to the clairvoyance we require the trial courts to possess.”
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.