Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
September 2021
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Michigan v. Bryant · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Randolph
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the guiding consideration is whether 'the information the parties knew at the time of the encounter would lead a reasonable person to believe that there was an emergency, even if that belief [is] later proved incorrect.' Thus, the 'primary purpose' inquiry is divorced from the subjective or actual intentions of the individuals involved in a particular encounter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“therefore, we review to determine whether there was error, and, if so, whether the error created a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution.”
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.