Tackett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1978
5 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 McGee v. Vanover · Roberts v. Commonwealth · Harris v. Commonwealth · Catron v. Commonwealth · Dalton v. Dalton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, however, it was employed to correctly describe one guilty of the conduct attributed to defendant by the prosecuting witness and others who testified in the case, it was not inappropriate for that purpose, and, being so, it could scarcely be characterized as prejudicial; though we' would not be understood as approving the application of- such terms by the commonwealth’s attorneys to a defendant on trial.””
2 later decisions 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.