Commonwealth v. Kitchen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the troopers stated to Appellee, ‘You’re lying,’ or “We know that you’re lying’ or phrases to that effect, their statements were aldn to a prosecutor offering his or her opinion of the truth or falsity of the evidence presented by a criminal defendant, and such opinions are inadmissible at trial. [Citation omitted.] The troopers’ statements could also be analogized to a prosecutor’s personal opinion, either in argument or via witnesses from the stand, as to the guilt or innocence of a criminal defendant, which is inadmissible at trial. [Citations omitted.]” 730 A.2d at 521 .”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gaudreau · State v. Elnicki

2. “inflame the jury to make a decision based upon something other than the legal propositions relevant to the case. As this Court has noted, a trial court is not required to sanitize the trial to eliminate all unpleasant facts from the jury’s consideration where those facts form part of the history and natural development of the events and offenses with which [a] defendant is charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Pa. Super. 470 - Commonwealth v. Serge

3. “if the Commonwealth had no witnesses to produce in the instant case, then any comments to Appellee, on the videotapes, relating to witnesses would have to be redacted; the deception would be permissible, but it could not be displayed before the jury since the police comments would be irrelevant and prejudicial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gaudreau