Faulkner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2005
6 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 Berger v. United States · Edwards v. Commonwealth · Parsley v. Commonwealth · Hemphill v. Commonwealth · Banks 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ujpon reading the record of the trial of this case the conclusion is inescapable that the Commonwealth’s attorney pursued a course of action deliberately calculated to cause the jury’s decision to be influenced by improper factors. In this he overstepped the bounds of propriety and fairness which should characterize the conduct of a prosecuting attorney.”
2 later decisions 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.