Clair v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1969
12 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 Shell v. Commonwealth · Moore v. Commonwealth · Ochsner v. Commonwealth · Fry v. Commonwealth · Allen v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is suggested that the court erred in failing to admonish the jury that this evidence could be considered only for the purpose of effecting Sexton’s credibility as a witness. But, conceding for present purposes that such an admonition would have been proper, no request for an admonition was made and appellant must be deemed to have waived his right to it. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.