Shockley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
10 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
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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Why should the law be different when the defendant has made the disclosure voluntarily upon direct examination? .... Are we in a game in which by the introduction of competent evidence a party deprives himself of the right to have the jury properly instructed that its purpose is limited to impeachment of his credibility? ... [I]n this case we are not concerned with admissibility, but with the right of a party to have the jury advised of the special purpose for which admissible evidence is to be considered. Shockley v. Commonwealth, 415 S.W.2d 866, 872 (Ky. 1967) (Palmore, J., dissenting) [emphasis in original].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is better practice in all cases, when the request is timely made, to admonish the jury that the prior conviction should be considered only as it may affect the credibility of the witness.” Id., 415 S.W.2d 872 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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