St. Clair v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Jorn · Oregon v. Kennedy · United States v. Dinitz
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is little question that the capital kidnapping and murder of [the victim], if brought in the same county, could have been tried together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider the punishment as well as any errors enumerated by way of appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Com. of Ky.
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.