Prince v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2004
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Donahue v. Commonwealth · Stevenson v. Commonwealth · Land v. Commonwealth · Tyree v. Lariew · Radford v. Community Mortgage & Investment Corp.
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.
“An admission deliberately made, precisely identified and clearly proved affords evidence of a most satisfactory nature and may furnish the strongest and most convincing evidence of truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gray v. Rhoads“[e]xtra-judicial admissions made by a party to a civil action are admissible in evidence against”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gray v. Rhoads
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.