Commonwealth v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mello (1995), Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz (1990)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brewer v. Williams · Bates v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Tavares
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is within the trial judge's discretion ... to choose the form of expression best adapted to make the law intelligible to the jurors.”
2 later decisions 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.