Sadoski v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harmon v. Commonwealth · 39 Wis. 2d 733 - State v. Midell · Hummel v. Commonwealth · Hicks 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the Commonwealth may ask a defendant who testifies in a criminal proceeding the number of times he has been convicted of a felony, but, consistent with [the general rule established] in Harmon , not the names of the felonies, other than perjury, and not the nature or details thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person convicted of a felony or perjury shall not be incompetent to testify, but the fact of conviction may be shown in evidence to affect his credit.”
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.