Commonwealth v. Mercier’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Solem v. Stumes (1984), Commonwealth v. Yount (1974)
65 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 · Commonwealth v. Simala · Commonwealth v. Bordner · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · Commonwealth v. Nathan
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a waiver to be effective, the reversal of the defendant's position must have been initiated by him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`any question likely to or expected to elicit a confession constitutes `interrogation' under Miranda'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[RJeading the statement after appellant had exercised his Miranda rights was totally impermissible. Interrogation should have ceased once the appellant exercised his constitutional rights, and, since we hold the reading of the statement of a third party to appellant was a form of interrogation, obviously interrogation did not cease. Hence, the police violated the mandate of Miranda.” Id. at 215, 302 A.2d at 340 .”
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.