Commonwealth v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · Blackburn v. Alabama
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.
“we examine whether, in light of the totality of the circumstances surrounding the making of the statement, the will of the defendant was overborne to the extent that the statement was not the result of a free and voluntary act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A statement is voluntary if it is the expression of a 'rational intellect' in its formulation and a 'free will' in its expression.”
1 later decision 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.