Trout v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2000
15 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 Sims v. Commonwealth · McCue v. Commonwealth · Combs v. State · Washington & Old Dominion Railway v. Ward's Administrator · Rinehart & Dennis Co. v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question here presented is not new to this court. It seems to be an elementary principle that improper remarks of counsel, when withdrawn by instructions of the court, are not sufficient grounds for a reversal unless it plainly appears that the jury has been prejudiced against the accused thereby. We have repeatedly held that the granting, or refusal of a new trial on such grounds, is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court, and that such discretion will not be interfered with except when abused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the witness has no adverse interest, but is shown to be adverse or hostile to the party introducing him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weller v. Com.
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.