Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Romano v. United States · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Farrell v. Massachusetts
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that a defendant has refused to comply with a court order is admissible so long as that order does not require the production of testimonial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nordlund
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.