Commonwealth v. Leamer’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus (1975), Commonwealth v. Ware (1974)
41 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 · Escobedo v. Illinois · Coleman v. Alabama · Adams v. Illinois · Drews v. Maryland
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The grounds on which the rule rests are the hasty and unguarded character which is often attached to confessions and admissions and the consequent danger of a conviction where no crime has in fact been committed . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ware
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.