620 So. 2d 77 - Wyatt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2011
18 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 · Arizona v. Fulminante · Doerr v. Doerr · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Confessions that are the result of express or implied promises are not voluntary and must be excluded from the jury’s consideration. Guenther v. State, 282 Ala. 620 , 213 So.2d 679 (1968), cert, denied, 393 U.S. 1107 , 89 S.Ct. 916 , 21 L.Ed.2d 803 (1969).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“' 533 So.2d at 712 , quoting C. Scott, 3 Photographic Evidence ง 1297 at 97 n. 42, 5 (2d ed. 1969) (1987 Pocket Part); see also Jackson v. State, 582 So.2d 598 (Ala.Cr.App.1991).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whether an appellant’s confession is voluntary is a determination left to the discretion of the circuit judge and that determination will not be disturbed on appeal unless contrary to the great weight of the evidence and manifestly wrong. We must look at the totality of the circumstances surrounding the confession to determine whether it was voluntary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.