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← 434 PA 219 - Commonwealth v. Simala

Commonwealth v. Simala’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

142
cited by 142 later decisions
4
states following
January 2013
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[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
  2. “[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
  3. “`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.