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5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 12 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 King v. Commonwealth.

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1 King v. Commonwealth Anchor
va · 1977
green “evidence that the defendant has committed an unrelated crime is inadmissible against him.” 3
2 Duncan v. Commonwealth
vactapp · 1986
green “a defendant introducing mitigating evidence at the guilt phase of a trial may be found to have put his character in issue,” 3
3 State v. Lambert
ca1 · 1908
green “that the fact of an accused's flight, escape from custody, resistance to arrest, concealment, assumption of a false name, and related conduct, are admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt, and thus of guilt itself.” 3
4 McClain v. Commonwealth
va · 1949
green “shall be adjudged guilty only on evidence admissible on that issue.” 2
5 McClain v. Commonwealth
va · 1949
green “be adjudged guilty only on evidence admissible on that issue.” 1

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