Commonwealth v. Prater’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Cooper v. Oklahoma (1996), Commonwealth v. Larkin (1999)
52 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 · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Oregon v. Elstad · Drope v. Missouri
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) after the illegally obtained statement, there was a break in the stream of events that sufficiently insulated the post- Miranda statement from the tainted one; or (2) the illegally obtained statement did not incriminate the defendant, or, as it is more colloquially put, the cat was not out of the bag.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a determination of the voluntariness of the later confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.