58 Wis. 2d 135 - Pontow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 136 Wis. 2d 222 - State v. Clappes (1987), 60 Wis. 2d 683 - State v. Cydzik (1973)
2 district · 30 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Brown v. Allen · Haynes v. Washington
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a promise of leniency does not in itself evince involuntariness, it is a factor which may be considered in making that determination.” Id. at 143 , 205 N.W.2d at 779 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Bram opinion cites with approval the statement in an English textbook that a confession is not voluntary if "obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight." That language has never been applied with the wooden literalness urged upon us by appellant. The Supreme Court has consistently made clear that the test of voluntariness is whether an examination of all the circumstances discloses that the conduct of "law enforcement officials was such as to overbear [the defendant's] will to resist and bring about confessions not freely self-determined ..." ........ [T]hus [I] find that the defendant's confession was not rendered involuntary by any promises made to him. Indeed, the instant facts make this an a fortiori case, since it was the defendant who offered information, conditioning it upon being assured the agents would endeavor to get him placed in federal custody. [at 469]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘The essential question, in determining the volun-tariness of a confession, is whether the confession was coerced, or the product of improper pressures exercised by the police. To be admissible into evidence, a confession must be the voluntary product of a free and unconstrained will, reflecting deliberateness of choice.’ ” Pontow v. State (1973), 58 Wis. 2d 135, 137 , 205 N. W. 2d 775 .”
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.