Bentler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1959
18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial judge likewise erred in entering the room where the jury were deliberating, and, in the absence of accused and his counsel, answering questions there propounded by the jury and giving them advice with respect to the law of the case or the verdict to be returned by them. Not only was this action of the court a violation of the provision of section 249 of the Criminal Code, which requires when the jury desires to be informed upon a point of law that they should be brought into court and the information given by the court ‘in the presence of, or after notice to the accused and his counsel, ’ but it was calculated to put the court in a position to be misjudged and his motive questioned. Cyc., vol. 12, page 681; Goode v. Campbell, 14 Bush 75 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.