Hutto v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
165 federal appellate · 78 district · 199 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 602 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 754 - People v. Benson (1990), United States v. Leon Guerrero (1988)
165 federal appellate · 78 district · 199 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedMobley ex rel. Ross v. Meek (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · Bram v. United States
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 602 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extracted by any sort of threats or violence, [or] obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight, [or] by the exertion of any improper influence.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprague v. State · Raphael v. State“involve the admissibility in criminal trials of statements made during the plea negotiation process,”
2 later decisions 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.