Commonwealth v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. White (1995), Commonwealth v. Hughes (1989)
100 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 · Gerstein v. Pugh · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Dugger · Commonwealth v. Futch
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny act that indicates an intention to take the person into custody and subjects him to the actual control and will of the person making the arrest.... The test is an objective one, i.e., viewed in the light of the reasonable impression conveyed to the person subjected to the seizure rather than the strictly subjective view of the officers or the persons being seized.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“focus should be upon when the [defendant's] statement was obtained, i.e., within or beyond the six hour period.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“to guard against the coercive influence of custodial interrogation [and] to ensure that the rights to which an accused is entitled at preliminary arraignment are afforded without unnecessary delay.”
4 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.