Commonwealth v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Vinnie (1998), People v. Matheny (2002)
51 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 · Escobedo v. Illinois · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the place of the interrogation; (2) whether the officers have conveyed to the person being questioned any belief or opinion that that person is a suspect; (3) the nature of the interrogation, including whether the interview was aggressive or, instead, informal and influenced in its contours by the person being interviewed; and (4) whether, at the time the incriminating statement was made, the person was free to end the interview by leaving the locus of the interrogation or by asking the interrogator to leave, as evidenced by whether the interview terminated with an arrest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken * into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a formal arrest or restraint on freedom of movement of the degree associated with a formal arrest”
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.