Lee v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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.

1. ““While the statements of the commonwealth were perhaps somewhat overdrawn, still it is apparent that appellant was not prejudiced thereby. No definite rule can be laid down for the guidance and direction of a commonwealth’s attorney or other lawyer in the presentation of his case to the jury, further than that he must deal fairly with the evidence and the application of the law, as given by the court, to the evidence. A broad latitude is necessarily allowed him, and it is only when it is made clearly to appear that he has gone outside of the record for his facts and sought by this method to take an undue and unfair advantage of the accused- that the court is justified in interfering.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loyall v. Commonwealth

2. ““Upon a careful examination of the record, we are satisfied that appellant had a fair trial of his case. The punishment meted- out to him by the jury was justified under the facts proven, and the judgment is affirmed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loyall v. Commonwealth