Commonwealth v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Clarke (2012), Commonwealth v. Tremblay (2011)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 · Johnson v. Zerbst · Mapp v. Ohio · Gault · Moran v. Burbine
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that '[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him.' Similarly, art. 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights provides that 'every subject shall have a right to produce all proofs that may be favorable to him [and] to meet the witnesses against him face to face.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“indulge every reasonable presumption against waiver ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actually understands the import of each Miranda warning.”
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.