Commonwealth v. MacNeill’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Berry (1995), Commonwealth v. Alfonso A. (2003)
35 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 Commonwealth v. Garcia · Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Vanderpool · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile · Commonwealth v. Cameron
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This procedure reflects our assumption that an informed parent, or person standing in loco parentis, will be better able to understand the child's rights, rights which a child of such tender years is unlikely to comprehend fully without the assistance of such a person. For cases involving a juvenile who has reached the age of fourteen, there should ordinarily be a meaningful consultation with the parent, interested adult, or attorney to ensure that the waiver is knowing and intelligent."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BMB · McIntyre v. State
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.