Commonwealth v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Cunneen · Scott v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Grey · Commonwealth v. Gould
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ruling on the defendant's motion, the judge found as a fact that by saying, "Nope," the defendant meant only that he did not wish to make a formal statement and not that he was unwilling to answer questions. We cannot say this determination was clearly erroncous. Immediately before and after that point, the defendant appears to have been quite willing to talk. The judge was warranted in concluding that the defendant did not suddenly change his mind about discussing the incident, but had no prepared speech.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Marshall · Pena v. State
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.