Durham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Turner v. Commonwealth (1980), Bunch v. Commonwealth (1983)
1 federal appellate · 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 State v. Butler · Webb v. Commonwealth · Mason v. Commonwealth · Butts v. Commonwealth · Jones 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Confessions are to be weighed like all other evidence and a jury may believe them in whole or in part, as reason may decide. If from the confession itself, or other evidence, it appears to a rational mind that a part is not true, a jury does not have to accept it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nferences ... drawn from proven facts so long as they are reasonable and justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Green v. Commonwealth, 133 Va. 695, 699 , 112 S.E. 562, 563 (1922).”
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.