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← 49 MASSAPPCT 150 - Commonwealth v. Coleman

Commonwealth v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty · Stansbury v. California · United States v. Griffin

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

  1. “substance of what was said was harsh and intended by the questioner to be so”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “defendant's denials were scorned and overridden,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[h]is 'freedom' was thus threatened and limited”
    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.