Commonwealth v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2017
23 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
Relies on Cotton v. Commonwealth · Cowan v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Commonwealth · Bell v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Morris
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] witness may be asked if he has been previously convicted of a felony. If his answer is “Yes,” that is the end of it and the court , shall thereupon admonish the jury that the admission by the witness of his prior conviction of a felony may be considered only as it affects his credibility as a witness, if it does so. If the witness answers “No” to this question, he may then be impeached by the Commonwealth by the use of all prior convictions, and to the extent that Cowan [v. Commonwealth, Ky., 407 S,W.2d 695 (1966) ] limits such evidence to one prior conviction, it is overruled. After impeachment, the proper admonition shall be given by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.