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← 462 MASS 246 - Commonwealth v. Baye

Commonwealth v. Baye’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · Colorado v. Connelly · Malloy v. Hogan

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

  1. “'in light of the totality of the circumstances surrounding the making of the statement, the will of the defendant was [not] overborne,' but rather that the statement was 'the result of a free and voluntary act.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “We recite the facts as found by the motion judge, supplemented by certain undisputed facts and by our own viewing of”
    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.