Alexander v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Mills v. Commonwealth (1999), State v. Verge (2001)
31 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 Greer v. Miller · Georgia v. McCollum · Johnson v. Lutz · Sanborn v. Commonwealth · Jett 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violent inmate.” The issue of excluding testimony that he had been an inmate at all was not raised until the morning of the trial. . There are only two circumstances in which the presumptive efficacy of an admonition is overcome: (1) when there is an overwhelming probability that the jury will be unable to follow the court's admonition and there is a strong likelihood that the effect of the inadmissible evidence would be devastating to the defendant or (2) when the question was asked without a factual basis and was”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. Commonwealth“consider[ing] the Commonwealth's conduct in context and in light of the trial as a whole,”
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.