Commonwealth v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goodwin (1975), Commonwealth v. Boyd (1975)
40 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Culombe v. Connecticut · Rogers v. Richmond · Blackburn v. Alabama
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . to be ‘voluntary’ in the constitutional sense the statements must be the free choice of the maker. And if the maker’s will was overborne, either through physical or mental pressures, then the statement did not issue from a free choice.””
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.