Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In all cases where a question is raised as to the voluntariness of a statement of an accused, the court must make an independent finding in the absence of the jury as to whether the statement was made under voluntary conditions. If the statement has been found to have been voluntarily made and held admissible as a matter of law and fact by the court in a hearing in the absence of the jury, the court must enter an order stating its conclusion as to whether or not the statement was voluntarily made, along with specific findings of fact upon which the conclusion was based, which order shall be filed among the papers in the cause.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wicker v. State · Miller v. State

2. ““[T]he trial court has the duty, even in the absence of a specific request for a hearing, to respond to an objection to the voluntariness of a confession by holding a hearing on the issue and making express findings of fact and conclusions of law that decide the issue.””

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

3. “Officer Schofner testified that he talked to appellant after he had been arrested and gave appellant the “statutory warning off the blue card provided by the District Attorney’s Office,” which was read in evidence.”

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