Wilson v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2015
24 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 Maryland v. Garrison · Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · United States v. Tucker · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Rogers v. First National Bank of Peoria
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hen the trial judge erroneously and unconditionally admits prejudicial evidence, we cannot presume that the trial judge disregarded that evidence which he ruled to have probative value. While a judge is uniquely qualified by training, education and experience to disregard potentially prejudicial aspects of inadmissible evidence in the ultimate adjudication of the issue, we cannot assume that the judge has done so where the judge's rulings indicate otherwise.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence of other offenses is admitted if it shows the conduct and feeling of the accused toward his victim, if it establishes their prior relations, or if it tends to prove any relevant element of the offense charged. Such evidence is permissible in cases where the motive, intent or knowledge of the accused is involved, or where the evidence is connected with or leads up to the offense for which the accused is on trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In three cases, the Supreme Court has addressed the relevance and admissibility of prior drug-related offenses to prove an element or elements of the charged offense. See Boyd v. Commonwealth, 213 Va. 52, 53 , 189 S.E.2d 359, 359-60 (1972) ( per curiam ); Eccles v. Commonwealth, 214 Va. 20, 22 , 197 S.E.2d 332, 333 (1973) ( per curiam ); Donahue v. Commonwealth, 225 Va. 145, 156 , 300 S.E.2d 768, 774 (1983). The general principle stated in those cases is that prior sales of drugs do[ ] not, without more, tend to prove that an accused on another unrelated occasion intended to possess or sell drugs. Evidence of prior drug-related conduct is irrelevant and inadmissible and does not fall within one of the Kirkpatrick exceptions where there has been no showing of an intimate relation or connection between the prior conduct and an element of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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