Commonwealth v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 1991
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · North Carolina v. Butler · Fare v. Michael C. · Commonwealth v. McCutchen · Commonwealth v. Bussey
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.
“evaluation of the juvenile's age, experience, education, background, and intelligence, and . . . whether he has the capacity to understand the warnings given him, the nature of his Fifth Amendment rights, and the consequences of waiving those rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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