Commonwealth v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hall (1997), Commonwealth v. Zook (1992)
4 federal appellate · 35 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 · Edwards v. Arizona · Oregon v. Bradshaw · Edwards v. Arizona · Commonwealth v. Hubble
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]isleading statements and promises by the police choke off the legal process at the very moment which Miranda was designed to protect.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I really don't know what good it would do. The only thing is I would tell the District Attorney you cooperated for whatever good that would be, but I would have no idea whether it would help your case or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Maybe I should talk to a lawyer. What good would it do me to tell you?”
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.