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← 475 Pa. 535 - Commonwealth v. Bridges

Commonwealth v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
5
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 388 Pa. Super. 593 - Commonwealth v. Potts (1989), Commonwealth v. Leonard (1982)

33 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 Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Denno · Harrison v. United States · Commonwealth v. McCutchen · Commonwealth v. Smith

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

  1. “In Harrison , the United States Supreme Court stated: “The remaining question is whether the petitioner’s trial testimony was in fact impelled by the prosecution’s wrongful use of his illegally obtained confessions. It is, of course, difficult to unravel the many considerations that might have led the petitioner to take the witness stand . . But, having illegally • placed his confessions before the jury, the Government can hardly demand a demonstration by the petitioner that he would not have testified as he did if his inadmissible confessions had not been used. . . . Having ‘released the spring’ by using the petitioner’s unlawfully obtained confessions against him, the Government must show that its illegal action did not induce his testimony.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Rice

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.