Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably LeVasseur v. Commonwealth (1983), Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979)
45 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 Ward v. Commonwealth · Asbury v. Commonwealth · Coffey v. Commonwealth · Washington & Old Dominion Railway v. Ward's Administrator · McLean 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A judgment ought not to be reversed for the admission of evidence. . . which the court afterwards directs the jury to disregard unless there is a manifest probability that the evidence or statement has been prejudicial to the adverse party. A different rule would result in fixing an intolerable handicap upon the nisi prius courts.” . . . Whether the conduct was prejudicial is basically a question of fact to be determined in the light of all the circumstances of each particular case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an error arising from admission of evidence. . . may usually be cured by prompt and decisive action of the trial court.”
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.