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← 463 MASS 243 - Commonwealth v. Mejia

Commonwealth v. Mejia’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brecht v. Abrahamson · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Bowden · Commonwealth v. Casale

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

  1. “extend to statements made during noncustodial, prearrest police questioning . . . our 'long-standing rule' prohibiting the use at trial of a defendant's postarrest denials where the defendant chooses not to testify”
    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.