McCall v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 454 · 1988
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably McQueen v. Scroggy (1996), State v. Wesson (2013)
86 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Colorado v. Connelly · Davis v. North Carolina · Stafford v. Oklahoma · United States v. Pelton · Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections v. Ford
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extorted [the confession] from the accused by means of coercive activity.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“coercive police activity is a necessary predicate to the finding that a confession is not 'voluntary' within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Deference to lower court's findings is especially warranted in cases where the critical evidence is testimonial.”
2 later decisions 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.