Commonwealth v. Wideman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Oregon v. Elstad (1985), Commonwealth v. Powell (1991)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 · Harrison v. United States · Commonwealth. v. Hoss · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Ferguson
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) the time lapse between the last Miranda warnings and the accused’s statements; (2) interruptions in the continuity of the interrogation; (3) whether there was a change of location between the place where the last Miranda warnings were given and the place where the accused’s statement was made; (4) whether the same officer who gave the warnings also conducted the interrogation resulting in the accused’s statement; and (5) whether the statement elicited during the complained of interrogation differed significantly from other statements which had been preceded by Miranda warnings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruybal · DeJesus v. State
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.