State v. Boudreau’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1997
2 federal appellate · 14 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 McNabb v. United States · Townsend v. Burke · Haley v. Ohio · Malinski v. People of State of New York · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee
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.
“[T]he voluntary character of a confession is the chief test of its admissibility.... [T]his rule should be adhered to in cases where, as in the instant case, the confession is made while the defendant is under arrest and prior to his presentation before a magistrate, and though the detention shall have become unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell 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.