Commonwealth v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goodwin (1975), Commonwealth v. Hughes (1989)
96 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 · United States v. Mitchell · Killian v. United States · Commonwealth v. Futch · Commonwealth v. Garvin
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Futch did not . . . establish a per se rule that all evidence obtained during an unnecessary delay be excluded. It is only upon the defendant’s showing of prejudice from the delay, i. e., a nexus between the delay and the challenged evidence that he is entitled to relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Initially, as we noted in Futch, if unnecessary delay follows the’securing of a confession, that evidence is not reasonably related to the subsequent delay. See, e. g., United States v. Mitchell, 322 U.S. 65 , 64 S.Ct. 896 , 88 L.Ed. 1140 (1944); Virgin Islands v. Gereau, 502 F.2d 914 (3d Cir. 1974). For as the Supreme Court stated in Mitchell, ‘the illegality of [an accused’s] detention does not retroactively change the circumstances under which he made the disclosures.’ 322 U.S. at 70 , 64 S.Ct. at 898 .” (Emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.