Derossett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
18 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 Sanders v. Commonwealth · Slaughter v. Commonwealth · Matthews v. Commonwealth · Wilson v. Commonwealth · Thomas 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the trial court sustained appellant’s objections to such questions and admonished the jury without such being requested, and as appellant failed to request any further relief, error was not preserved for appeal. West v. Common wealth, Ky., 780 S.W.2d 600 (1989). (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Therefore, KRE 611 embodies the `wide open' rule of cross-examination by allowing questioning as to any matter relevant to any issue in the case, subject to judicial discretion in the control of interrogation of witnesses and production of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Acquaintance with a victim's family or residing in the same general neighborhood is not a relationship sufficient to always disqualify a prospective juror.”
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.