Thorpe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Mills v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Chestnut v. Commonwealth · Funk v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“Evidence that 'appeals to the jury's sympathies, arouses its sense of horror, provokes its instinct to punish, or otherwise may cause a jury to base its decision on something other than the established propositions in the case' is unfairly prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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