Commonwealth v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Negron v. United States · Goldberg v. Ellett · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xtrajudicial accusatory statements made in the presence of a defendant, which he [or she] has unequivocally denied, are hearsay and inadmissible as evidence of guilt in the Commonwealth's case-in-chief”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he core of any prejudice is more likely caused by admission of the accusations than the denials”
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.