Green v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007
4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Relies on Bruno v. United States · Shanks v. Commonwealth · Bradley v. Commonwealth · Hopper v. Commonwealth · Dumon v. Commonwealth
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the requested 'no inference' instruction . . . would have been a direct 'comment' by the court and would have emphasized the fact that the accused had not testified in his own behalf.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any criminal or penal prosecution the defendant, on his own request, shall be allowed to testify in his own behalf, but his failure to do so shall not be commented upon or create any presumption against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. Kentucky
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.