5 Utah 2d 59 - State v. Ashdown’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Ashdown v. Utah (1958), Elrod v. State (1967)
45 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 State v. Crank · State v. Jon · State v. BRAASCH · State v. Mares · State v. Allison
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his, alone ... will not render a confession inadmissible and if the confession was obtained in a manner and by such methods as are consistent with the proper detection of crime and determination of guilt, then our duty is to sustain the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Price“the intelligence, character, and situation of the accused at the time of the confession is an important consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Price
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.