Toler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979), Parks v. Commonwealth (1980)
57 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 McDorman v. Smyth · Abdell v. Commonwealth · Gilland v. Commonwealth · Massie v. Commonwealth · Satterfield 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he weight of the evidence or the inferences to be drawn from circumstances, is always a matter for the jury, under proper instructions from the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Discarding the evidence of the accused in conflict with that of the Commonwealth, we must regard as true the Commonwealth's evidence and all fair inferences to be drawn therefrom.”
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.