Woody v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Briley v. Commonwealth (1980), Whittaker v. Commonwealth (1977)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Alford v. United States · Rogers v. United States · Cardillo v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Cardillo
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With evidence of the other crimes [committed by prosecution witnesses] as a foundation, [defendant’s] counsel would then be entitled to question [those witnesses] as to any hope for leniency or expectation of favorable consideration, whether based on agreements or otherwise, . . . that may have prompted them to testify against [defendant].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any evidence is admissible which tends to affect the credibility of accomplices or the weight of their testimony by showing what influences, if any, were brought to bear upon them.... Defense counsel should be afforded great latitude in cross-examining accomplices testifying against a defendant.”
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.