People v. Brommel’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado (1965), 18 Cal. 3d 889 - People v. DeVaughn (1977)
169 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 Rogers v. Richmond · 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete · People v. Carter · People v. Albertson · 53 Cal. 2d 843 - People v. Love
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`any promise made by an officer or person in authority, express or implied, of leniency or advantage to the accused, if it is a motivating cause of the confession, is sufficient to invalidate the confession and to make it involuntary and inadmissible as a matter of law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The case against defendant depended upon circumstantial evidence and the challenged evidence falls within the exception to the rule allowing its admission as material to show motive, intent, and the general scheme of defendant’s continued course of conduct [cases omitted].” 56 C.2d 629, 635, 15 Cal.Rptr. 909, 912 , 364 P.2d 845, 848 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Apart from his confessions, the case against defendant was wholly circumstantial, but however strong the case otherwise the admission of involuntary confessions compels a reversal, and section 4 1/2, article VI, of the Constitution can under no circumstances save the judgment.”
1 later decision 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.