Bryant v. Vose’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 364 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 13 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Arizona v. Fulminante (1991), United States v. Batista-Polanco (1991)
33 federal appellate · 13 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Elstad · Miller v. Fenton · Frazier v. Cupp
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A custodial statement is involuntary, if 'the will of the defendant ha[s] been overborne so that the statement [is] not his free and voluntary act... in light of the totality of the circumstances.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reference to Bridgewater did not directly suggest leniency, let alone promise it. Any indirect promise to be inferred from the Bridgewater remark is so slight as to be insignificant in these circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Fenton“[T]he jury here `learned no more from the improperly admitted confession than it did from the properly admitted one,' since the oral and written confessions set forth essentially the same story.”
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.