Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), Nickels v. State (1925)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 Bram v. United States · People v. Loper · Green v. State · Coffee v. State · Ammons 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule seems to be well settled in this and other jurisdictions that before admissions made by a party while under arrest, can be introduced in evidence, the court should determine the principal question of whether the admissions were free and voluntary. Green v. State, 40 Fla. 474 , 24 So. Rep. 537 ; Murray v. State, 25 Fla. 528 , 6 So. Rep. 498 ; Coffee v. State, 25 Fla. 501 , 6 So. Rep. 493 ; People v. Loper, 159 Cal. 6 , 112 Pac. Rep. 720 , Ann. Cas. 1912-B, 1193; Sykes v. State, 78 Fla. 167 , 82 So. Rep. 778 . . . . Whether admissions or confessions are freely and voluntarily made, is a question for the court and the duty is imposed upon it to determine this question before permitting it to go to the jury. The introduction of this testimony was objected to by defendant and sufficient grounds were stated to call this to the court’s attention. The duty then devolved upon the court to make the investigation. . . . The question of whether an admission is freely and voluntarily made, is for the court to determine, and it is not a matter of the opinion of the witness. The proper method is to have the witness state the circum stances under which they were madé so that the court and not the witness may determine if they were free and voluntary. This investigation should be made in the absence of the jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Louette v. State · Brown 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.