Sterling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Garcia v. State (1994), Skillern v. State (1995)
70 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 Oregon v. Elstad · Michigan v. Jackson · Livingston v. Texas · Von Byrd v. Texas · Thomas 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. conditions rendering the first confession inadmissible which persisted through later questioning; 2. the break in time between the confessions; 3. renewed Miranda warnings; 4. who initiated the police interview which resulted in a later confession; 5. whether the defendant was taken before a magistrate to be warned of his rights between confessions; 6. evidence indicating that the defendant’s later confession was motivated by a desire to exculpate himself, rather than by any earlier improper influence brought to bear upon him; 7. whether the defendant remained in custody between the confessions; 8. whether the defendant conferred with counsel between confessions or made any kind of request for counsel; 9. evidence to suggest defendant was motivated by “cat out of bag” thinking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBride 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.