Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 state decisions

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

1. “(1) any officer or agent of the police force promises or implies to a suspect that he will be given special consideration from a prosecuting authority or some other form of assistance in exchange for the suspect's confession, and (2) the suspect makes a confession in apparent reliance on the police officer's explicit or implicit inducement.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · 235 Md. App. 175 - Ford v. State

2. “My conclusion, taking the transcript at face value, I mean, I conclude that no reasonable layperson in the position of the defendant would have inferred from the detective’s statements that he could gain the advantage of non-prosecution or some other form of leniency in this context because no reasonable person would believe that one can lawfully, under any circumstances, have sex with a 4-year-old. To me, that is the linchpin of the case. I could conjure other fact patterns, and I’ve discussed some of them with counsel, which could come down on one side of the ledger or the other side of the ledger, but, respectfully, not this one.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 220 Md. App. 256 - Smith v. State

3. “unless the State can establish that such threats or promises in no way induced the confession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 235 Md. App. 175 - Ford v. State