Davis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Commonwealth · Stoker v. Commonwealth · Boone v. Commonwealth · Kinser v. Commonwealth · Lawson 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial judge has broad discretion in designating the order of trial so as to protect the various rights of competing interests. And we will not disturb an action of the trial court in conducting a trial, unless clearly erroneous or arbitrary, unreasonable, unfair, or unsupported by sound legal principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Commonwealth
How this case has been treated — in progress
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