6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Cash.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People v. Cash Anchor | green | “created a risk that a juror who would automatically vote to impose the death penalty on a defendant who had j-58a-c-2018 - 19 previously committed murder or manslaughter was empaneled and acted on those views, thereby violating defendant's due process right to an impartial jury.” | 3 |
| 2 | Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Moore, J. | green | “for the sake of certainty, a conclusion reached in one case should be applied to those which follow, if the facts are substantially the same, even though the parties may be different.” | 3 |
| 3 | Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Moore, J. | green | “promoting the evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles, fostering reliance on judicial decisions, and contributing to the actual and perceived integrity of the judicial process.” | 3 |
| 4 | Commonwealth v. Smith, W., Aplt. | green | “a question designed to elicit what the jurors' reactions might be when presented with a specific aggravating circumstance.” | 3 |
| 5 | Commonwealth v. Mattison | green | “permitting pretrial questioning of the potential jurors regarding mattison's 1995 murder conviction could have biased the jury against him, and laid the foundation for an arguably meritorious claim of ineffective assistance of counsel on collateral review.” | 3 |
| 6 | Commonwealth v. Mattison | green | “unduly limited voir dire by precluding questioning that would have disclosed his previous murder conviction prior to the jury's determination of his guilt.” | 3 |
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