Bradley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 38 Va. App. 375 - Wactor v. Commonwealth (2002), Fred C. Walker Agency, Inc. v. Lucas (1975)
75 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 Michelson v. United States · Zirkle v. Commonwealth · Allen v. Commonwealth · Mullins v. Commonwealth · Davis 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In testing the credibility and weight to be ascribed to the evidence, we must give trial courts and juries the wide discretion to which a living record, as distinguished from a printed record, logically entitles them. The living record contains many guideposts to the truth which are not in the printed record; not having seen them ourselves, we should give great weight to the conclusions of those who have seen and heard them.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Instruction No. 5: The Court instructs the jury that to sustain the charge of rape, there must be evidence of some array or show of force in form sufficient to overcome resistance, but the woman is not required to resist to the utmost of her physical strength, if she reasonably believes resistance would be useless and result in serious bodily injury to her. “In this connection, you may consider the time, place and the relative physical strength and endurance of the prosecutrix and the defendant, the whole situation as it confronted her and all of the circumstances disclosed by the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.