433 So. 2d 501 - DeConingh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Nichols v. State (1988), 480 So. 2d 91 - Gardner v. State (1985)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · Blackburn v. Alabama · Spano v. People of the State of New York
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions ... also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that in the end life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves." [e.s.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. RM · State v. R.M.“comes to this court with a presumption of correctness [and] ... a reviewing court should not substitute its judgment for that of a trial court, but, rather, should defer to the trial court's authority as a factfinder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cross“the confessor is intoxicated to the degree of mania or is unable to understand the meaning of his statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.