Joseph v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Goins v. Commonwealth (1996), Clagett v. Commonwealth (1996)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 Soberon v. United States · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Simmons v. South Carolina · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Mu'Min 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When granted instructions fully and fairly cover a principle of law, a trial court does not abuse its discretion in refusing another instruction relating to the same legal principle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n a State in which parole is available, the Constitution does not require (or preclude) jury consideration of that fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is appropriate 'when jurors have announced their inability to agree.'”
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.