Bruner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Hooks (1986), Neill v. State (1994)
3 federal appellate · 95 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 Burks v. State · Roulston v. State · Atnip v. State · Bryant v. State · Riddle 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) they are generally made by experienced police officers; (2) they are voluntary statements; (3) they are wilfully jabbed rather than inadvertent; (4) they inject information indicating other crimes; (5) they are calculated to prejudice the defendant; and (6) they are prejudicial to the rights of the defendant on trial.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pruitt v. State · CARTER v. PENDLEY“... [T]his Court has held that where the offense charged is so connected with other offenses as to form a part of "an entire transaction" evidence of other offenses may be admissible to show the character of the offense charged... . And where there is a "logical connection" with the offense charged, evidence of separate and independent crimes may be admitted. (Citations omitted).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t was conceivable ... that the jury could have found him guilty without unanimously finding him guilty of each and every element necessary to the crime beyond a reasonable doubt”
2 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.