Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Greenfield v. Commonwealth (1974), Odum v. Commonwealth (1983)
26 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 Ashby v. Commonwealth · Miles v. Commonwealth · Reiber v. Duncan · Fulcher v. Whitlow · Pepoon 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deducible from the authorities are these principles: There must be dear and convincing proof that the witness testified falsely at the trial, and not merely proof that by reason of conflicting statements his testimony is unworthy of belief. Application for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court which has the opportunity of seeing and hearing the witness whose testimony is brought under attack, and the prime duty of determining whether he swore falsely at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ought to produce opposite results on the merits”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orndorff v. Com.
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.