Thomas R. Knott, Jr. v. Francis G. Howard, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 1060 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Frazier v. Cupp · Davis v. North Carolina
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he appropriate inquiry then becomes whether the conditions that rendered the earlier confessions inadmissible carried over to invalidate the subsequent one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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