Byrd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2013
24 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Gordon v. United States · United States v. Klee · United States v. Williams
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 prosecutor's comment on the failure of a defendant to testify must be manifestly intended to reflect on the accused's silence or of such a character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it as such to constitute prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The true test is whether the misconduct has prejudiced the defendant to the extent that he has not received a fair trial.”
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.