Miller v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No. 2. The court further instructs the jury that the testimony permitted to be heard by you concerning any other occasion or occasions, on which, if any, you may believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant had carnal knowledge with Marie Bradley, and the testimony concerning transactions between defendant and Marie Bradley, and concerning the conduct or actions of defendant, other than that referred to in instruction No. 1 may be considered by you as corrobrative evidence, if you regard it as corroborative, and you should not regard same for any other purpose.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowen v. Commonwealth