Commonwealth v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Lockhart v. Nelson · Fugate v. Commonwealth · Radford v. Lovelace · Commonwealth v. Mattingly
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“double jeopardy does not bar a retrial on the same offense when reversal is due to trial error because it does not imply the government has failed to prove its case. Instead, trial error is a determination that a defendant has been convicted through a judicial process which is defective in some fundamental respect, e.g., incorrect receipt or rejection of evidence, incorrect instructions, or prosecutorial misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) He intentionally causes serious physical injury to another person; or (b) He intentionally causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or (c) He wantonly causes serious physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument.”
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.