Tolliver v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1953
21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the affidavit had been admitted as true it would in effect have been admitted that the shooting was done in self-defense and all proof to show the contrary would have been inadmissible on behalf of the'Commonwealth.””
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.