Coe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Spencer v. Commonwealth (1990), 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth (1988)
143 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 Clozza v. Commonwealth · Noll v. Rahal · Bunting v. Commonwealth · Spruill v. Commonwealth · Boggs 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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, `[a] trial court has no discretion to admit clearly inadmissible evidence because admissibility of evidence depends not upon the discretion of the court but upon sound legal principles.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he responsibility for balancing these competing considerations is largely within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen relevant evidence is offered which may be inflammatory and which may have a tendency to prejudice jurors against the defendant, its relevancy “must be weighed against the tendency of the evidence to produce passion and prejudice out of proportion to its probative value.” . . . The responsibility for balancing these competing considerations is largely within the sound discretion of the trial judge. . . . And a trial court’s discretionary ruling will not be disturbed upon appeal absent a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.