Commonwealth v. Sunahara’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 2024
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Sellon · Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he settled law in the Commonwealth is that 'if the voluntariness of the defendant's statements remains a live issue at trial, the judge must submit the issue of voluntariness to the jury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he judge must instruct the jury that the Commonwealth has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the statement was voluntary and that the jurors must disregard the statement unless the Commonwealth has met its burden.”
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.