Cook v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1929
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ To authorize a continuance on the ground of the absence of one of several attorneys, there should be some .assurance that he will be present at the next term; and .a continuance should never be granted on that account, unless it appears that' the ends of justice require the presence at the trial of that particular person selected by the defendant and his counsel, and a fair and impartial trial cannot be had without him. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.