Jefferson v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2022
13 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 Davis v. Mullins · Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth · Cutshaw v. Cutshaw · Cunningham v. Smith · Rollins v. Bazile
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deals with evidence of judicial action, that is, a declaration of historical fact. The statement, however, does not purport to govern the substantive validity of the judicial act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not constitute an integral part of, and should not be confused with, the judgment itself.”
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.