Crane v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021
2 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · Bradley v. Commonwealth · Britt v. Commonwealth · Diehl v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not relate to the credibility of the confession,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“intimidation surrounding the taking of the confession, . . . relevant to its credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not preempt the jury's need to consider evidence about coercion in deciding guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.