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← 468 MASS 429 - Commonwealth v. Harris

Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 2020
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Dusky v. United States · Buchanan v. Kentucky · H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Blasius v. United States · Pierce v. United States

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

  1. “the product of a 'rational intellect' and a 'free will,' and not induced by physical or psychological coercion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The defendant told the officers that he had”
    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.