Commonwealth v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he proper test to be applied by a trial court in determining the admissibility of photographs in homicide cases is whether or not the photographs are of such essential evidentiary value that their need clearly out weighs the likelihood of inflaming the minds and passions of the jurors.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 313 Pa. Super. 138 - Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Vogel

2. ““Whether the purpose of the evidence was as asserted by the court en banc to illuminate the testimony of the pathologist or as suggested by the court in its charge to the jury to assist the jury in making a finding of a specific intent to kill, it is quite apparent that it sheds little light under either theory. . . . Whereas here there was an absence of any compelling reason for the admission of these slides, we are forced to conclude that their introduction was error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Vogel