Commonwealth v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilson (2004), Commonwealth v. Miles (1995)
97 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 · Pennsylvania v. Muniz · Anthony v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Flebotte
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensure that an adequate record exists for an appellate court to evaluate his claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough a booking officer proceeding down a litany of routine questions may have no investigatory purpose [in asking certain questions], the content of that person's response may be incriminating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the improper testimony went only slightly beyond the opinions offered which were admissible.”
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.