Biscoe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Hillard v. State (1979), Winder v. State (2001)
5 federal appellate · 66 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.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he witness told the prisoner ‘that it would be better for him to tell the truth.’ ... After full argument of the case, Pollock, C.B., said: ‘When a prisoner has been told that he had better tell the truth, and these expressions are used by, or in the presence of a person in authority, I always reject the evidence.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * whether it was a free and voluntary confession, or whether it was procured by the influence of another under a hope of favor or advantage if made, or fear of harm or disadvantage of some kind if withheld.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.