James v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1970
17 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 Overstreet v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Bonar v. Commonwealth · Choate 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have frequently held that, where a number of errors appeared in the record, none of which, singly and alone, would be sufficient to authorize a reversal, one would be ordered if, considering them in the aggregate, we were ‘satisfied that the substantial rights of the defendant have been prejudiced thereby.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.