Commonwealth v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Alphas (1999), Commonwealth v. Mello (1995)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Rhode Island v. Innis · Doyle v. Ohio
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of [adoptive admissions] is to be received with caution, especially in criminal cases, due to the fact that the meaning of a defendant's response, or lack thereof, to an accusatory statement is often ambiguous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e consider a defendant's claim even if the action by trial counsel does not constitute conduct 'falling measurably below that ... of an ordinary fallible lawyer.'”
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.