Commonwealth v. Simala’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chester (1991), Commonwealth v. Yount (1974)
2 district · 136 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 · Mathis v. United States · Orozco v. Texas · 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not simply custody plus `questioning,' as such, which calls for the Miranda safeguards but custody plus police conduct . . . calculated to, expected to, or likely to, evoke admissions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he requirement of `interrogation' is designed to permit the use by the prosecution of a confession that is given by an accused without any prompting, before warnings can be given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Interrogation' is police conduct `calculated to, expected to, or likely to evoke admission.'”
2 later decisions 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.