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Commonwealth v. Cornish’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
2
states following
August 2020
most recently cited

59 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. D'Amato (1987), 339 Pa. Super. 32 - Commonwealth v. Hernandez (1985)

59 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Hampton v. United States · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Blair

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

  1. “Cornish, in a related argument would have us rule, analogous to guilty plea situations, that the police should have inquired as to the extent of Cornish’s drug intake once they were aware he used narcotics. We decline to create such a per se rule. The issue is one to be resolved by examining the totality of the circumstances, and the circumstances instantly established Cornish was in full control of his will. This is not to say that such an inquiry would not have been a preferable way for the police to have proceeded, but their not having done so does not automatically render the statement involuntary. Cf. Commonwealth v. McKinney, 453 Pa. 10 , 306 A.2d 305 (1973). 471 Pa. at 268-69 , 370 A.2d at 297 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Pugh

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.