Commonwealth v. Leftwich’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo · Johnson v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 687 - People v. Collins · Commonwealth v. Helfant
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a deliberating juror * is determined to be experiencing severe emotional or mental distress, well beyond that level of distress that often accompanies deliberations, it is within the trial judge's discretion to discharge that juror after consideration of all the circumstances,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, in order for the prejudicial effect to outweigh the probative value of prior conviction evidence, the 'prior conviction must be substantially similar to the charged offense'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the juror's statement that she could not continue to deliberate in a fair manner and because of the physical manifestations of stress that the judge had observed.”
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.