Commonwealth v. Gelfgatt’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
6
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California · Malloy v. Hogan · Kastigar 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an act of production is testimonial depends on whether the government compels the individual to disclose the contents of his [or her] own mind to explicitly or implicitly communicate some statement of fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where the information conveyed by an act of production is reflective of the knowledge, understanding, and thoughts of the witness, it is deemed to be testimonial and, therefore, within the purview of art. 12”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“through his use of computers, conducted a sophisticated scheme of diverting to himself funds that were * intended to be used to pay off large mortgage loans.”
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.