Commonwealth v. Bracey’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hughes (1989), Commonwealth v. D'Amato (1987)
44 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 · Jackson v. Denno · Gault · Fay v. Noia · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning.”
3 later decisions 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.