Napier v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 1937
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Deaton, Haddix and White v. Commonwealth · Winchester 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Due to his position in the community, the statements of a commonwealth’s attorney carry great weight with a jury. An unwarranted attack, such as we have here, carrying such weight, must necessarily be very prejudicial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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