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← 473 MASS 553 - Commonwealth v. Celester

Commonwealth v. Celester’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 2021
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Crawford v. Washington · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · United States v. Gouveia

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

  1. “before affirmatively advising * a client to speak about the case to the police, it is necessary for counsel to undertake some investigation of the charge and the government's evidence”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “at which point the defendant made inculpatory statements during his police interview. Id . In Celester , we recognized that a person's right to speak with counsel is not”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “provided ineffective assistance by instructing or advising him [ (without conducting an investigation) ] to make a statement to police that had an inculpatory effect.”
    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.