Commonwealth v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Osie (Slip Opinion) (2014), Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista (2004)
2 district · 125 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 · Arizona v. Fulminante · Moran v. Burbine · Bram v. United States · Colorado v. Spring
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the police may not expressly bargain with the defendant over the release of other individuals or make threats of arresting and charging others with no basis, where this type of conduct is ab sent, the police may bring to the defendant's attention the possibility that his relatives may be culpable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The absence of objection from defense counsel further convinces us that taken in the context, the remark would not likely have misled the jury or prejudiced [the defendant].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A jury should be instructed first to decide whether the defendant is guilty of murder and, if so, then to decide whether the defendant is guilty of murder in the first degree. If so, the jury should say so by their verdict.””
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.