Commonwealth v. Koonce’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Braley (2007), Commonwealth v. Whitman (2000)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Cupp v. Naughten · Francis v. Franklin · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause an individual's right to be free from self-incrimination is a fundamental principle secured by the Fifth Amendment and by art. 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the privilege is to be liberally construed in favor of the person claiming it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Other instructions might explain the particular infirm language to the extent that a reasonable juror could not have considered the charge to have created an unconstitutional presumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koonce v. Pepe“[e]ven taken in isolation the jury would understand that the judge had made an error because there would be no purpose in the defendant proving he used excessive force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koonce v. Pepe
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.