St. Clair v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
8
states following
June 2020
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Neil v. Biggers · Gregg v. Georgia · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law-of-the-case doctrine exists to serve the important interest litigants have in finality, by guarding against the endless reopening of already decided questions, and the equally important interest courts have in judicial economy, by preventing the drain on judicial resources that would result if previous decisions were routinely subject to reconsideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doyle v. Doyle“Under the law-of-the-case doctrine, an appellate court, on a subsequent appeal, is bound by a prior decision on a former appeal in the same court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doyle v. Doyle
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.