Commonwealth v. Auclair’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Anderson (2005), Commonwealth v. Johnston (2014)
36 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Davis v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Tavares
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“emotional upset alone does not render a waiver of Miranda rights or the voluntariness of the statement itself invalid where there is no evidence that the defendant was acting irrationally [during the interrogation].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and a finding of voluntary waiver is given substantial deference.”
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.