Commonwealth v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Lynch v. Ficco (2006), Commonwealth v. Colon (2007)
5 federal appellate · 48 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he judge may consider, among other things, the defendant's age, education, intelligence, physical and mental stability, and experience with and in the criminal justice system,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An admission by a defendant to a civilian is only admissible if voluntarily made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“waiver [of his Miranda rights] was voluntary, knowing and intelligent, and”
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.