Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “Here, the methods used by the police in extracting a waiver and statement from appellant only indicate that his decision to speak was not voluntary .... (O) nce an appellant has exercised his constitutional right to counsel, any action initiated by the police per se is not the free and unconstrained decision of the appellant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Brown v. Cuyler

2. “For a waiver to be effective (after a defendant has asserted his right to remain silent) the reversal of the defendant's position must have been initiated by him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Brown v. Cuyler

3. “(t)hat the trial court erred in not suppressing two allegedly involuntary statements which appellant made following his arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. Cuyler