Montgomery v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Statements of the prosecuting attorney, in argument to the jury, ‘why couldn’t they contradict the state’s testimony, but not one place do they do that,’ and T say again there is no evidence offered to contradict the state’s evidence in this case’ held not a comment upon the failure of the defendant to testify as a witness in his own behalf * * * .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hair v. State · Rodgers v. State

2. ““The U.S. Supreme Court did not hold in the Miranda decision that voluntary statements, made by an accused in custody, are inadmissible. Instead, that decision holds that voluntary statements of an accused in custody may be admissible into evidence, under circumstances shown to be free of coercion, and especially when such statements were truly voluntarily made, as in this case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. State