Chumbler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably State v. Burns (1999), Springer v. Commonwealth (1999)
32 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · United States v. Young
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“PENALTY AS TO COUNT I: MURDER OF KIMBERLY BOWERSOCK IF DEATH: We, the jury, find beyond a reasonable doubt that the following aggravating circumstance or circumstances as set forth in Instruction No. 13 exist in this case. (Please write in entirety such circumstance or circumstances.) [the jury wrote in the two aggravators found] and we fix the Defendant’s punishment for the Murder of Kimberly Bowersoek at death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any party may tender instructions but no party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he makes specific objection to the giving or the failure to give an instruction before the court instructs the jury, stating specifically the matter to which he objects and the ground or grounds of his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A person is guilty of criminal facilitation when, acting with knowledge that another person is committing or intends to commit a crime, he engages in conduct which knowingly provides such person with the means or opportunity for the commission of the crime and which in fact aids such person to commit the crime. [Emphasis added.]”
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.