Commonwealth v. O'Brian’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2021
19 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 Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman · Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista · Commonwealth v. Meehan · Commonwealth v. Selby
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An officer may suggest broadly that it would be ‘better’ for a suspect to tell the truth, may indicate that the person’s cooperation would be brought to the attention of the public officials or others involved, or may state in general terms that cooperation has been considered favorably by the courts in the past. What is prohibited, if a confession is to stand, is an assurance, express or implied, that it will aid the defense or result in a lesser sentence.” (Footnotes omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no evidence that the jury did not understand the high degree of certainty required to find the defendant guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury did not convict the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation”
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.