Bennett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Spencer v. Commonwealth (1989), Satcher v. Commonwealth (1992)
4 federal appellate · 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Williams v. Florida · Durfee v. Duke · People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Johnson v. Texas
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not desirable for the Commonwealth's Attorney to testify as a witness on a material point in a case. The circumstances are rare indeed where any lawyer may properly testify in a case in which he is participating as an advocate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Inman“even though the new witnesses [in Webb] helped convict the accused, the Fourth Circuit said there was a 'total lack of prejudice to the defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y granting the continuance, the state trial court showed that it was 'scrupulously interested in insuring that justice be done.'”
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.