50 Ala. App. 486 - Hegmon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
October 1984
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mapp v. Ohio · Jackson v. Denno · Lawrence Metze v. New York · Duncan v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true test of voluntariness of extrajudicial confessions is whether, under all the surrounding circumstances, they have been induced by a threat or a promise, express or implied, operating to produce in the mind of the prisoner apprehension of harm or hope of favor; and if so, whether true or false, such confessions must be excluded from the consideration of the jury as having been procured by undue influence. Womack v. State, 281 Ala. 499 , 205 So.2d 579 . ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chancey v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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