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← 147 VA 617 - Harold v. Commonwealth

Harold v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1927

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
September 1986
most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1986

20 state decisions

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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 Allen v. Commonwealth · Parsons v. Commonwealth · In re Cutchin · Harris v. Commonwealth · Langhorne 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ * * * but it is an important principle, that the prisoner should not be taken by surprise. As he is charged with a particular offense, he has notice to be prepared to defend himself against that charge, and that alone. He cannot be prepared to defend himself against other charges, not exhibited against him or to maintain the integrity of his whole life, when that is not put in issue; and when it is, he cannot be prepared to account for particular instances of malconduct, of which he is not previously informed, and as to which he is not required to defend himself.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Barber v. Commonwealth
  2. ““But if they” (this admitted evidence) “denote other guilt, they are not only irrelevant, but they do injury, because they have a tendency to prejudice the minds of the jury; and for this additional reason they ought to be excluded.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Barber v. Commonwealth

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.