Davidson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2008
5 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 Merritt v. Commonwealth · Webb v. Commonwealth · McQueen v. Commonwealth · Click v. Commonwealth · Kelly 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.
“He may properly ask questions of a witness in order to expedite the orderly procedures of the trial.... But, in asking questions in the presence of the jury while the issues still hang in the balance, he should not allow his personal opinions to "leak into the crucible." ... The trial judge's observations and comments usually carry such weight with the jury that they must be subject to safeguards against abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... The trial judge's observations and comments usually carry such weight with the jury that they must be subject to safeguards against abuse. Davidson v. Commonwealth, 394 S.W.2d 911, 912 (Ky.1965) (internal citations omitted). Specifically, the trial judge cannot”
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.