Commonwealth v. Hilton’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lopes (2009), Commonwealth v. Hoyt (2011)
45 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 · Massiah v. United States · Brewer v. Williams · Michigan v. Jackson · Maine v. Moulton
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess to a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bartelt“[A]n interview does not automatically become custodial at the instant a defendant starts to confess.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bartelt“was neither aggressive nor confrontational,”
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.