State ex rel. Carlo’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Gault (1967), Peyton v. Nord (1968)
3 federal appellate · 82 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.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] child can be rehabilitated only in the face of the truth, and that the process would be undue which harbors the danger of falsity. If a confession is obtained in circumstances which cast doubt upon its truthfulness, it has no place in the juvenile process . . . Thus, there should be every assurance that the juvenile was not led into a false account, and to that end . . . the police should see that a parent or some relative or friend is present, if it at all feasible, to allay the fear or pressure a youngster could feel in strange hands and a strange setting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because of the ease with which some boys may yield to suggestion, I would insist upon a quantum of corroboration we do not now demand with respect to confessions of adults.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he object of the juvenile process is to make men out of errant boys.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.