State v. VM JONES’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2012
9 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 Berger v. United States · Bacon v. State · People v. Zackowitz · Green v. State · People v. Malkin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law cannot measure the force of the influence thereby produced; neither can the courts determine in what degree they affected the mind of the accused and to what extent they entered into his decision to confess. Hence, the rule is established that, ... confessions which are made [under such conditions] must be excluded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans · Carter v. State“even a slight inducement held out by such a person [in a position of authority] renders the confession involuntary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans · Carter v. State“from the spontaneous suggestion of the party's own mind, free from the influence of any extraneous disturbing cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy 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.