Beavers v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Goins v. Commonwealth (1996), Clagett v. Commonwealth (1996)
91 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 Moran v. Burbine · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Brewster v. Derwinski · Morgan v. Illinois
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court exercises its discretion when it determines whether it should grant a motion for mistrial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As an exception to this rule, “the admission of incompetent evidence is reversible error notwithstanding the fact that the trial court, after its admission, instructed the jury to disregard it, if such illegal evidence was so impressive that it probably remained on the minds of the jury and influenced their verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged after conviction it is our duty to view it in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.”
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.