Commonwealth v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2017
4 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 809 · 10 U.S.C. § 831 · 10 U.S.C. § 867 · 10 U.S.C. § 886
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · Malloy v. Hogan · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Haynes v. Washington
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Arrest is the restraint of a person by an order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing him to remain within certain specified limits. Confinement is the physical restraint of a person. (b) An enlisted member may be ordered into arrest or confinement by any commissioned officer by an order, oral or written, delivered in person or through other persons subject to this chapter [10 USCS §§ 801 et seq.]....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. The court, therefore, held that handwritten statements made in response to a request by military superiors were inadmissible. Id. at 490 . Under circumstances parallel to those here, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court likewise found that when a defendant was ordered to report to his commanding officer for questioning and was required to remain and answer his superior's questions, he was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It ignores the realities of [military life] to say that one ordered to appear for interrogation has not been significantly deprived of his freedom of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.