Commonwealth v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waller v. Georgia · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Saferian · United States v. Marcus · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while we regularly admit expert testimony regarding the voluntariness of a statement where the defendant suffers from a mental impairment or mental health issue, there is no evidence that [Gallett] had cognitive limitations or suffers from a mental * illness that would affect his capacity to make a voluntary statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Whether an interrogation is custodial depends on the 'objective circumstances of the interrogation, and not on the subjective views of either the interrogating officers or the person being questioned'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In reviewing a ruling on a motion to suppress, we accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error but conduct an independent review of his ultimate findings and conclusions of law”
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.