Commonwealth v. Singley’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
34 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Attwood v. Singletary
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statement in [a] prior opinion, which clearly was not decisional but merely dicta, `is not binding upon us'”
2 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.