State v. Hickam

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• involuntary confessions occur where coercive circumstances are “sufficient in their totality to overcome defendant’s will to resist”
• confession voluntary in spite of evidence of mental retardation when defendant understood the nature of the investigation and responded appropriately to questions
• court concluded that defendant’s statements were voluntary and rejected his argument that, “because he is mentally retarded, his will to resist was overcome by the mere fact of questioning itself’
• “Implicit also in the conclusion of voluntari- ness is the finding that, despite his retardation, [the] defen- dant was able to comprehend the questions asked and to respond as he saw fit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Middleton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-01-08· cited 31×
• State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Deford
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2001-10-31· cited 22×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1989-10-11· cited 10×
• State v. Mattila
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1986-01-08· cited 10×
• State v. Vasquez-Santiago
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2019-12-04· cited 9×
• State v. Peacock
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1985-09-18· cited 4×
• State v. Brummer
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2004-12-08· cited 2×
• State v. Swader
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1985-03-13· cited 1×
• State v. Neely
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1987-10-14· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Berkemer v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 4,856×
• Oregon v. Mathiason
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-25· cited 2,680×
• California v. Beheler
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 2,048×
• Ball v. Gladden
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1968-07-17· cited 849×
• State v. Quinn
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1981-01-20· cited 183×
• State v. Paz
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1977-12-05· cited 82×
• Carter v. Moberly
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1972-10-19· cited 80×
• State v. Roberti
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1982-06-22· cited 50×
• State v. Madison
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 32×
• State v. White
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1984-06-26· cited 17×
• Oregon v. Roberti
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-05· cited 8×
• State v. Ritchie
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1981-02-03· cited 7×