Commonwealth v. Bordner’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably State v. Manus (1979), Commonwealth v. Chacko (1983)
2 district · 87 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 · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · In re Ruffalo · 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The circumstances reveal a plan on the part of the police authorities to use the mother as a police instrumentality in the interrogation of the accused son and the statements made to the mother, in the context of this factual setting, are as though made to the police themselves.” Bordner, 247 A.2d at 617 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Harold S.
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.