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← 458 MASS 100 - Commonwealth v. Miranda

Commonwealth v. Miranda’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

36 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments)

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Hoffa v. United States · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Wrenn v. McFadden

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “for counsel to respond to arguments raised by the defense, and to make an argument presented by way of reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the evidence”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[C]ircumstantial evidence is sufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[A] prosecutor shifts the burden of proof when, for example, he or she calls the jury's attention to the defendant's failure to call a witness or witnesses, or when the prosecutor offers 'direct comment * on a defendant's failure to contradict testimony.'”
    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.