State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1995
12 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 Lego v. Twomey · Texas v. Louisiana · Lyons v. State of Oklahoma · Beecher v. Alabama · State v. Lord
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though a defendant has been given the required warning of his constitutional rights, the later incriminating statement may not be used unless it is established that the later statement was not the exploitation of the earlier illegally obtained incriminating statements, and unless the later statement was obtained under circumstances sufficiently distinguishable to purge it from the taint of the earlier illegal statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Poller“The State had the burden of proving the second and third inculpatory statements were voluntary... . The State also had the burden of persuading the trial court that the inculpatory statements were voluntary... . [Emphasis added.] [91 N.M. at 587, 577 P.2d at 895 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Poller“The fact that defendant was advised of his constitutional rights and understood them, and the fact that defendant viewed the third confession as voluntary, does not show the third statement was not the exploitation of the first, illegally obtained statement... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Poller
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.