Covington v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 2018
3 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 Solem v. Helm · Kolender v. Lawson · Workman v. Commonwealth · Morton v. Commonwealth · Kelly v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The gravity of the offense and harshness of the penalty; (2) The sentences imposed upon other criminals in the same jurisdiction; (3) The sentences imposed for commission of the same crime in other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Fint“covered by the indictment and deducible from or supported to any extent by the testimony.”
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.