Hart v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 165 W. Va. 837 - State v. Moore (1980), 2 Va. App. 639 - Walls v. Commonwealth (1986)
61 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brown v. Illinois · Weeks v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not ... permit the Commonwealth to accomplish indirectly what it cannot do directly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirm the decision of the trial court when it has reached the right result for the wrong reason[,]... `the Commonwealth cannot use [this principle] as a subterfuge for a constitutionally prohibited cross-appeal'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“obtained by exploitation of the illegal action.”
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.