Powell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
73
cited by 73 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
October 2016
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Ring v. Arizona · Liteky et al United States · Green v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile the directive of this Court's mandate binds the circuit court, that court is not thereby prohibited from acting on matters not constrained by the language of the mandate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]irect evidence ... is rarely subject to exclusion on the ground that it would be unduly prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`A trial court has no discretion to disregard [a] lawful mandate.'”
2 later decisions 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.