Lilly v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

53 state decisions

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the importance of the tainted evidence in the prosecution's case, whether that evidence was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the tainted evidence on material points, and the overall strength of the prosecution's case.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 55 Va. App. 457 - Crawford v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Redmond

2. “[T]he issue is not the credibility of the witness, but rather the potential for harm caused by the erroneous admission of evidence which tends to support the jury’s credibility determination. In that context we must presume that such evidence had the potential to influence the jury into accepting the properly admitted evidence as more credible, and thus, to taint the jury’s determination of the facts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 46 Va. App. 342 - Lynch v. Commonwealth · 35 Va. App. 1 - Cairns v. Commonwealth

3. “`[B]efore a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Angel v. Com. · Stevens v. Com.