Commonwealth v. Podlaski’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Casale (1980), Commonwealth v. Freiberg (1989)
2 district · 53 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 · Oregon v. Mathiason · Bates v. State Bar · Beckwith v. United States · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that the officer would not let the defendant leave until he had talked to him did not make the interrogation custodial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.