Commonwealth v. Sites’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 27 Md. App. 361 - Cummings v. State (1975), Commonwealth v. Frye (1969)
4 district · 60 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 · Johnson v. Zerbst · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Commonwealth Ex Rel. O'Lock v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Jefferson
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision in Miranda was announced on June 13, 1966, and in Johnson v. New Jersey, 384 U.S. 719 , [ 86 S.Ct. 1772 , 16 L.Ed.2d 882 ] (1966), was held to apply to all “trials” commencing on and after that date. Despite the fact that the instant trial began on September 19, 1966, the Commonwealth urges that Miranda does not control because the “trial” on the issue of the admissibility of the evidence involved began April 26, 1966, the date of the hearing on the motion to suppress. Again, we cannot agree. This would give the word “trial” a new meaning and in our opinion would be contrary to what the United States Supreme Court intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for a statement obtained from an individual subjected to incustody police questioning to be admissible as trial evidence, it is an absolute requirement that the Commonwealth demonstrate, inter alia, that before the questioning began the suspect was clearly informed of his right to have his own legal counsel present during the questioning. And in order to apprise the suspect fully of his rights in this regard, it is indispensable not only that he be warned of his right to have counsel but also that he be advised that a lawyer will be appointed to represent him if he is indigent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In Commonwealth v. Jefferson, 423 Pa. 541 , 226 A. 2d 765 (1967), we pointed out that custodial interrogation of a suspect by the police is not limited to questioning in a police station or to questioning that occurs after a formal arrest. If this were not so, the police would need only to delay formal arrest or physical transfer of an accused to the station house in order to circumvent the constitutional safeguards Miranda dictates.””
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.