92 So. 2d 621 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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

1. “"* * * Exhortations to tell the truth, while under arrest, absent duress, threats, compulsion, hope of reward or benefit, do not render a statement involuntary. * * *"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Interest of GGP · 107 So. 2d 16 - Frazier v. State

2. “Before admissions made by a party under arrest can be introduced in evidence the court should determine the important question of whether they were free and voluntary, and the court must make this determination before permitting the admission to go to the jury. This question is for the court and is not a matter of opinion of witnesses. This investigation should be made in the absence of the jury. If it clearly appears that such admissions were voluntarily made, they are admissible, but the question of voluntariness should be more stringently examined when the party is in custody. Louette v. State, 152 Fla. 495 , 12 So.2d 168 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 479 So. 2d 208 - Whitfield v. State