Rearick v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. English (1999), Ratliff v. Commonwealth (2006)
29 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 Pendleton v. Commonwealth · Billings v. Commonwealth · Anastasi v. Commonwealth · Spencer v. Commonwealth · Cannon 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A significant factor in identifying such prejudice is the extent to which evidence of one offense would be admissible in a trial of the other offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of other acts of sexual deviance ... must be so similar to the crime on trial as to constitute a so-called signature crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Two (2) or more offenses ... may be charged in the same indictment ... in a separate count for each offense, if the offenses are of the same or similar character or are based on the same acts or transaction connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.