Catlett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2017
10 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 Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth · Barnes v. Commonwealth · Gilligan v. Commonwealth · Teasley 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(I)f the accused plead not guilty, with his consent and the concurrence of the Commonwealth’s attorney and of the court entered of record, he may be tried by a smaller number of jurors, or waive a jury.” (Italics supplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the present case there is no issue of fact as to whether the Commonwealth’s Attorney actually concurred in the waiver. The only question here is whether such concurrence was “entered of record”, and no proper inference can be drawn from a reading of the order to show that the concurrence of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, even if had, was “entered of record”.”
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.