Banner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth (1982), Hatcher v. Commonwealth (1978)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Harper v. Commonwealth · Crutchfield v. Commonwealth · Wade v. Commonwealth · Jeffress v. Virginia Railway & Power Co. · Williams 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It cannot be questioned that both the Commonwealth and the defendant are entitled to appropriate instructions telling the jury the law applicable to each version of the case, provided such instructions are based upon the evidence adduced[, a]nd each party may employ language of its own choosing so long as it is in keeping with the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An illegal arrest of itself would not give the defendant the right to shoot or take the officer's life”
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.