Covil v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Toler v. Commonwealth · Carter v. Commonwealth · Stapleton v. Commonwealth · Westcott v. Commonwealth · Emmett 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A false or evasive account is a circumstance, similar to flight from a crime scene, that a fact-finder may properly consider as evidence of guilty knowledge.”
2 later decisions 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.