Mack v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 148 W. Va. 263 - State Ex Rel. Dandy v. Thompson (1964), 7 Va. App. 488 - Kaufman v. Kaufman (1988)
29 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 United States v. Josef Perez · Simmons v. United States · Thompson v. United States · State v. Slorah · Rosser v. Commonwealth
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is manifest that we have no means of determining, as did the trial judge, the effect which the statement of counsel might reasonably have had upon the minds of the jurors. If the judge, acting impartially, as we must assume he did, believed that the statement of counsel was likely to result in an unjust verdict, we cannot say that his action was without justification. Of course, he could not exercise the power vested in him to act arbitrarily or without good cause to believe that the action he took was necessary to prevent great injustice either to the Commonwealth or to the defendant. The power of the court is always to be used alike for the protection of the public and for the security of the defendant in his right to an impartial trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The object of the law is to obtain a fair and just verdict, and whenever it shall appear to the court that the jury impanelled cannot render such a verdict, it ought to be discharged, and another jury impanelled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prieto v. Com.“[a] person on trial for a capital or lesser offense may waive his right to plead former jeopardy. This waiver may be expressed or implied.”
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.