Slaughter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1941
19 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 Commonwealth v. Glass
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence on the second trial is substantially the same as that heard on the first trial. It is well settled that a decision by this court on a former appeal is the law of the case, and is binding not only on the trial court but this court as well. This rule applies both' in civil and criminal cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The decisions of the court upon challenges to the panel, and for cause, or upon motions to set aside an indictment shall not be subject to exception.””
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.