Overton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
March 2010
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Tison v. Arizona · Deboue v. Louisiana · Vig v. United States · Erickson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] judge, unlike a juror, is uniquely suited by training, experience and judicial discipline to disregard potentially prejudicial comments and to separate, during the mental process of adjudication, the admissible from the inadmissible, even though he has heard both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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