Commonwealth v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
February 1985
most recently cited
35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Linkletter v. Walker · Desist v. United States · Williams v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“We recognize that various inequities arise in all three standards [which determine the effective date of a decision] when one litigant benefits from a decision and another, seemingly similarly situated, is denied the same benefit. We are of the opinion that the Little-Linkletter finality approach, which was first announced in United States v. Schooner Peggy, 1 Cranch 103 , [ 5 U.S. 103 ], 2 L.Ed. 49 (1801), should remain as the standard for issues of applicability in this Commonwealth. 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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