Commonwealth v. Bookman’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Daye (1984), Commonwealth v. Judge (1995)
51 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 · Brown v. Illinois · Brown v. Allen · California v. Green · Dunaway v. New York
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to substantial deference by this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.