Woodfin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Spencer v. Commonwealth (1990), Goins v. Commonwealth (1996)
102 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Sireci v. Florida · Fitzgerald v. Virginia
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`if it tends to prove any relevant element of the offense charged,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he general rule ... must sometimes yield to society’s interest in the truth-finding process, and numerous exceptions allow evidence of prior misconduct [w]henever the legitimate probative value outweighs the incidental prejudice to the accused. For this reason, rather than stating the rule as an exclusionary rule with numerous exceptions, it may be more helpful to phrase [it] in terms of relevance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are limited to the appellate record in this case in consideration of issues presented here. We are not permitted to supplement the record by referring to [other evidence] not made a part of this record.”
2 later decisions 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.