Barth v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shannon Geary v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Davis v. Commonwealth

2. “In Burge , we departed from the so-called 'same conduct’ test described in Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508 , 110 S.Ct. 2084 , 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990), ... and reinstated the Blockburger rule 'as the sole basis for determining whether multiple convictions arising out of a single course of conduct constitutes double jeopardy.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kiper v. Commonwealth

3. “The proof need not positively show the connection; but there must be proof rendering the inference reasonable or probable from its nearness in time and place or other circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Commonwealth