Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2018
15 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 Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Anderson v. Buchanan · Gross v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Brown 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it had been accepted as expert evidence in only one other homicide case in the United States (and that case involved Dr. Shaler himself as the expert witness),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he had conducted testing with respect to only three blood antigens, when there are as many as 23 separate blood antigens that can be analyzed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sound discretion of the court and the exercise of that discretion will not be disturbed on appeal except for abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phon v. Com. of Ky.
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.