Turnbull v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2006
22 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. Wilson · Washington v. Commonwealth · Foster v. Commonwealth · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Reid Motor Co. · Mack 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no general rule as to what facts and circumstances constitute such a necessity but the trial court is authorized by the statute to exercise its discretion in making the determination according to the circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may, but is not obligated to, consider the opinion evidence of experts. It is a matter within the discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nobrega v. Com.“may discharge the jury when it appears ... that there is a manifest necessity for such discharge.”
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.