Barnett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2018
17 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lister v. United States · Commonwealth v. Sawhill · Ice v. Commonwealth · Martin-Trigona v. Belford
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"appellant was entitled under RCr 7.24 to be confronted with the fact that this opinion would be presented against him before the trial started so that he had a reasonable opportunity to defend against the premise." Id. Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a cat and mouse game whereby the Commonwealth is permitted to withhold important information requested by the accused,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“attributable to washing away the blood that could have been expected from the victim's wounds.”
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.