Commonwealth v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36
cited by 36 later decisions
1
states following
March 1986
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Jones v. United States · Henry v. State of Mississippi · McGautha v. California · Commonwealth v. Futch
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This rule of exclusion was not developed primarily because of the unreliability of such evidence but rather because of our determination to require police conduct to comply with our procedural rules."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all criminal prosecutions the accused . . . cannot be compelled to give evidence against himself.”
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.