Commonwealth v. Bui’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Bui v. DiPaolo (1999), Commonwealth v. Watkins (1997)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 64 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 Davis v. Alaska · Maryland v. Buie · Dennis v. Dennis · Olden v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Henson
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Linh] testified that [Bui] admitted to her that he and another man had killed the victims and that he had used a knife to kill people. She also testified that the defendant and the other man had given her jewelry which, the jury could have found, had been taken from the victims’ apartment ____ [Thinh] testified that when [Bui] saw Linh Nguyen’s mother wearing a necklace taken in the robbery, [Bui] told Thinh Trinh not to let her wear it “around here.” Thinh Trinh testified further that [Bui] had told him that he had stabbed the older victim in the chest, had shown him a knife and said, “This is the knife that kill,” and had shown him a gun similar to one in evidence, as to which ... there was testimony connecting such a gun with impressions on the skull of the younger victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bui v. DiPaolo“The [trial] judge concluded that the defendant had an adequate comprehension of English and that he understood his rights when they were given to him both in English and in Vietnamese. The judge was warranted in finding that the defendant was sober, alert, and responsive during the police interview.... The judge concluded that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant was adequately advised of his Miranda rights, that he knowingly and voluntarily made statements after the waiver____ The evidence did not require the judge to find as a fact that the defendant was interrogated after he had asserted his right to remain silent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bui v. DiPaolo“is well established in the common law, in the United States Constitution [Sixth Amendment], and in the Constitution of the Commonwealth [art. 12 of the Declaration of Rights]”
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.