Commonwealth v. LeBlanc’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lopes (2009), Commonwealth v. Tremblay (2011)
28 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 Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz · Commonwealth v. Doucette · Commonwealth v. Selby · Commonwealth v. Paszko
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the defendant was emotionally upset, he spoke calmly when giving his statement, and there is no evidence that he was acting irrationally”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he fact that a defendant may have been in a disturbed emotional state, or even suicidal, does not automatically make statements involuntary,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the product of a 'rational intellect' and a 'free will,' and not induced by physical or psychological coercion.”
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.