Ester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Chambers v. Maroney · Bumper v. North Carolina · Smith v. Maryland · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[v]oluntariness is a question of fact to be determined from all the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
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.