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Commonwealth v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bumper v. North Carolina · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Segura v. United States · Georgia 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Because a finding of voluntariness is a question of fact, it should not be reversed absent clear error by the judge.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Because a valid search warrant would have issued regardless of the inclusion of the tainted information discovered during the initial entry into the apartment, there was an independent source for the challenged evidence”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “if 'the evidence in its totality shows a common scheme and a pattern of operation that tends to prove' each indictment.”
    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.