Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Commonwealth v. Simala
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is always the right and sometimes the duty of a trial judge to interrogate witnesses, although, of course, questioning from the bench should not show bias or feeling nor be unduly protracted.’ ””
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.