Houston v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I went to Emma Lee White’s house. My wife was hanging up clothes. She was coming out [the] back door. I asked her what was going on. She said nothing. I went in the back. Maxie Ely [the alleged victim] was in the back room on the left. I carried a rifle in the house with me. I pushed the door open. Maxie got the rifle and broke the stock. He started beating me with the rifle and his fists. He picked me up off the floor, and I passed out. When I woke up, Maxie was lying on the floor. I staggered over him and walked out the back door. There was no one else in the house.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Houston v. State

2. ““It has long been the law that a confession is prima facie involuntary and inadmissible, and that before a confession may be admitted into evidence, the burden is upon the state to establish voluntariness and a Miranda predicate. A two-pronged test is used to determine whether an accused’s statement is admissible. First, the trial court must determine whether the accused was informed of his Miranda rights. Second, the trial court must determine whether the accused voluntarily and knowingly waived his Miranda rights before making his statement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State