Commonwealth v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 1980
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Culombe v. Connecticut · Rogers v. Richmond · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Garvin · Commonwealth v. Goodwin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . [T]he duration, and the methods of interrogation; the conditions of detention, the manifest attitude of the police toward the defendant, the defendant's physical and psychological state and all other conditions present which may serve to drain one's powers of resistance to suggestion and undermine his self-determination. (Citations omitted.) . . . [W]hen the question of voluntariness passes beyond the realm of physical coercion and into degrees of psychological coercion, most careful attention will be afforded to any facts, circumstances or events tending to overbear the will of the accused."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice by its maker.”
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.