531 So. 2d 643 - Ex Parte Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 601 So. 2d 52 - Ex Parte Matthews (1992), Ex Parte Trawick (1997)
53 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 McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Lawrence Metze v. New York · Walker v. Illinois · 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State · 494 So. 2d 154 - Ex Parte Magwood
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Any words spoken in the hearing of the prisoner which may, in their nature, generate such fear or hope render it not only proper but necessary that confessions made within a reasonable time afterwards shall be excluded, unless it is shown by clear and full proof that the confession was voluntarily made after all trace of hope or fear had been fully withdrawn or explained away and the mind of the prisoner made as free from bias and intimidation as if no attempt had ever been made to obtain such confessions.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hamlet v. State · Carden v. State“'The true test of voluntariness of extra-judicial confessions is whether, under all surrounding circumstances, they have *Page 54 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.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]xtrajudicial confessions are prima facie involuntary and inadmissible, and [that] the burden is on the State to prove that the confession was made voluntarily.”
4 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.