Commonwealth v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gonsalves (2005), Commonwealth v. Larkin (1999)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · Beck v. State of Ohio · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · United States v. Testan · Commonwealth v. Upton
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Miranda rule does not apply to a private citizen or school administrator who is acting neither as an instrument of the police nor as an agent of the police pursuant to a scheme to elicit state ments from the defendant by coercion or guile.”
5 later decisions 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.