601 So. 2d 52 - Ex Parte Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 728 So. 2d 192 - Davis v. State (1997), State v. Swanigan (2005)
93 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Oregon v. Elstad · United States v. Recalde · Wallace v. State · 387 So. 2d 855 - Eakes 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifestly contrary to the great weight of the evidence.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DMM v. State · Saffold v. State“"[I]t is well grounded in Alabama law that '[i]n order to be admissible a confession must be free and voluntary and cannot be the result of any direct or implied promises, however slight.' Ex Parte Johnson , 522 So.2d 234 , 237 (Ala. 1988) (quoting Eakes v. State , 387 So.2d 855 , 859 (Ala.Crim.App. 1978))."”
3 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DMM v. State · Thomas v. State
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.