Hedrick v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““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
   e.g. Johnson v. Commonwealth