Pinn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1986
2 federal appellate · 10 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 State v. D'Adame · Dejarnette v. Commonwealth · People v. Harrison · Commonwealth v. Mazarella · Commonwealth v. Kosior
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As Judge Burks said in Mazer v. Commonwealth, 142 Va. 649, 653 , 128 S. E. 514 , 515: ‘The high official position of the trial judge in a criminal case gives great weight, with the jury, to his words and conduct, and it is incumbent upon him to guard against any manifestations of his opinion either upon the weight of the evidence or the credibility of the witnesses. “All expressions of opinions, or comments, or remarks, upon the evidence, which have a tendency to intimate the bias of the court with respect to the character or weight of the testimony, particularly in criminal cases, are watched with extreme jealousy and generally considered as invasions of the province of the jury.” Dejarnette v. Commonwealth, 75 Va. 867, 874 . He should preside with impartiality and “not express or intimate an opinion as to the credibility of a witness or as to controverted facts ’ ’. There are numerous cases to this effect.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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