Roberson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 1984
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hanks v. Commonwealth · Alexander v. Commonwealth · Begley 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After appellant’s motion for a peremptory instruction was overruled, he moved the court to admonish the jury not to consider his failure to testify, and ‘not to allow a presumption of guilt to arise in their minds from his failure to testify’. The court properly overruled the motion.””
1 later decision 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.