Lear v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2013
17 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 Crist v. Bretz · Bell v. Commonwealth · Billings v. Commonwealth · Snodgrass v. Commonwealth · Bedell 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An incompetency hearing is only required when the trial judge is presented with sufficient evidence of reasonable doubt of competency to stand trial. If no reasonable grounds exist for doubting a defendant’s competency, no error occurred in not holding a hearing. Reasonable grounds must be called to the attention of the trial court or must be so obvious that the trial judge cannot fail to be aware of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Common facts rather than common criminality are the keystone of such an examination. The real question is whether the method of the commission of the other crime or crimes is so similar as to indicate a reasonable probability that the crimes were committed by the same person. If it does, evidence that the defendant committed the other crime is admissible to show intent, motive, or common plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The remoteness in time of uncharged acts is a concern which must be carefully weighed as a part of a trial court's decision. Those concerns are, however, tempered when the acts in question so clearly show such a well-defined continuous pattern of conduct.”
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.