Lee v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The record in the case does not disclose that appellant either read or offered to read the statement as Bond’s deposition; hence, .we cannot conclude, since appellant himself did not think enough of the testimony of this witness to read his deposition, that the court below erred in forcing appellant into trial in the absence of this witness.””

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