Commonwealth v. Brantner’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer (1982), Commonwealth v. Chester (1991)
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
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 · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. O'SEARO · Commonwealth v. Lopinson · Commonwealth v. Walzack
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prosecution offered appellant’s own statement reflecting a consciousness of the consequences of his own acts, and also produced lay testimony going to establish appellant’s sanity. Viewing all of the evidence in a light most favorable to the Commonwealth (citation omitted), we find the evidence more than sufficient to permit the jury to reject any suggestion of diminished capacity and to find that appellant intended to cause the death of his victims, (citation omitted; emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Interrogation' is police conduct `calculated to, expected to, or likely to evoke admission.'”
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.