Commonwealth v. Tavares’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 284 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Lawrence (2007), Commonwealth v. Mello (1995)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 284 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Sandstrom v. Montana · Brewer v. Williams
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the humane practice in this Commonwealth is for the judge ... to instruct the jury that they may consider all the evidence, and that they should exclude the confession, if, upon the whole evidence in the case, they are satisfied that it was not the voluntary act of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he judge must instruct the jury that the Commonwealth has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the statement was voluntary and that the jurors must disregard the statement unless the Commonwealth has met its burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we examine whether, in light of the totality of the circumstances surrounding the making of the statement, the will of the defendant was overborne to the extent that the statement was not the result of a free and voluntary act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.