Woodson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Fisher v. Commonwealth (1988), Lovitt v. Commonwealth (2000)
25 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Cooper v. Commonwealth · Poole v. Commonwealth · Henry v. Commonwealth · Reil 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] litigant may not, in a motion to strike [the evidence], raise for the first time a question of admissibility of evidence. Such motions deal with the sufficiency rather than the admissibility of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bitar v. Rahman
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.