Samuels v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Bolin v. Commonwealth (1925), McDaniel v. Commonwealth (1918)
27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We recognize that it is important in the administration of the criminal law that a trial may be had. as speedily after the transaction under investigation as a decent regard for the rights of the accused will permit; but it is more important that, the trial should be fair than that it should be speedy. The peace and order of society demand that persons charged with crime should be brought, to an early trial and, if guilty, convicted and punished; but, while this is so, the right of the accused to reasonable time and opportunity to prepare and present his defense and establish his innocence, if he can, should not be lost sight of, or the trial conducted in such haste as to deny the accused the right to be heard in his own behalf.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunt v. Commonwealth
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.