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Commonwealth v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ¡ 29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera ¡ Atkins v. Virginia ¡ Penry v. Lynaugh ¡ Payne v. Tennessee ¡ Estelle v. Smith

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

  1. “The court shall instruct the jury that if it finds at least one aggravating circumstance and at least one mitigating circumstance, it shall consider, in weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, any evidence presented about the victim and about the impact of the murder on the victim's family.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage ¡ from the dissent
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Hairston
  2. “it is settled that a trial court should not instruct the jury on legal principles which have no application to the facts presented at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 2008 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Smith

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.