Commonwealth v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Com., Dept. of Transp. v. Renwick · Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing v. Scott · COM., DEPT. OF TRANS. v. Scott
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“continued demands to speak to a lawyer constitute a refusal.”
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.