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← 503 Pa. 555 - Commonwealth v. Ziegler

Commonwealth v. Ziegler’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 1999
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Malloy v. Hogan · Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon

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

  1. “"This test for `custodial interrogation' has been consistently applied in this Commonwealth, with a nuance added by subsequent developments. [T]his jurisdiction's test of `custodial interrogation' examines more than actual deprivation of freedom. Pennsylvania's test for custodial interrogation is whether the suspect is physically deprived of his freedom in any significant way or is placed in a situation in which he reasonably believes that his freedom of action or movement is restricted by said interrogation....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “an accused must not be compelled to incriminate himself.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. at 444, 86 S.Ct. at 1612.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.