Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Taylor v. State (1997), Commonwealth v. Swafford (2004)
2 district · 25 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 · Carroll v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis · Chambers v. Maroney · Draper v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a case cannot be proved if the evidence [is entirely circumstantial and] equally supports two inconsistent propositions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“designed to elicit incriminatory admissions”
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.