Carpenter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
September 2007
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Walker v. Illinois · 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial judge need only be convinced from a preponderance of the evidence to find a confession to have been voluntarily made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. State · Jones v. State“made an independent and informed choice of his own free will, that he possessed the capability to do so, and that his will was not overborne by pressures and circumstances swirling around him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial court's ruling will be reviewed in relation to the evidence presented to it prior to its ruling.”
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.