Yeatts v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Mueller v. Commonwealth (1992), Roach v. Commonwealth (1996)
3 federal appellate · 85 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Miller v. Fenton
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burglary statutes exist to protect against 'the danger that the intruder will harm the occupants in attempting to perpetrate the intended crime or to escape and the danger that the occupants will in anger or panic react violently to the invasion, thereby inviting more violence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have repeatedly held that if a defendant wishes to take advantage on appeal of some incident he regards as objectionable enough to warrant a mistrial, he must make his motion timely or else be deemed to have waived his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Making a timely motion for mistrial means making the motion 'when the objectionable words were spoken.'”
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.