Commonwealth v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Yesilciman · Commonwealth v. Moon · Commonwealth v. Selby · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Ruddock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]oncern for a loved one may, in certain circumstances, * render a confession involuntary,”
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.