Commonwealth v. Gonsalves’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Crawford v. Washington · Negron v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's postarrest silence in response to police questioning may not be used against him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defendant's refusal to answer a booking question”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is in connection with booking questions.”
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.