Lee v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Simon v. Commonwealth (1979), Rhodes v. Commonwealth (1982)
31 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Clodfelter v. Commonwealth · CA JONES v. Commonwealth · Clodfelter 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen grounds for a dismissal are not assigned and do not otherwise appear of record, the doctrine of collateral estoppel will not be applied since the defendant bears the 'burden of proving that the precise issue or question he seeks to preclude was raised and determined in the first action.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ollateral estoppel does not apply if it appears that the prior judgment could have been grounded `upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consideration'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an issue of ultimate fact' in the misdemeanor prosecution and an element of each of the felonies charged in the indictments.”
3 later decisions 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.