Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mahnke (1975), Commonwealth v. Flynn (1972)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Commonwealth v. Fancy · Commonwealth v. Millen · Commonwealth v. Kiernan
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the statement was sought to be introduced at trial, it was prima facie voluntary. The burden was on the defendant to show that the statement was not voluntarily made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Hall“(t)he judge's extensive findings of fact show that he was not required, as a matter of law, to conclude that the statement was involuntarily given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Hall
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.