Slayton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Marshall v. Commonwealth (1960), State v. Robinson (1958)
3 federal appellate · 73 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 Langnes v. Green · Burns v. United States · The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan · Pusey's Estate · People v. Lippner
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cause deemed by the court to be sufficient for revoking a suspension must be a reasonable cause. The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain an order of revocation ‘is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court. Its findings of fact and judgment thereon are reversible only upon a clear showing of abuse of discretion.’ The discretion required is a judicial discretion, the exercise of which ‘implies conscientious judgment, not arbitrary action.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining whether the evidence warrants the revocation of a suspension of sentence, the credibility of the witnesses and the evaluation and weight of their testimony, are for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. COTTERELL v. Com.“restor[e] to a useful place in society an offender who is a good social risk”
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.