Dean v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ This is not a case calling for the application of principles and rules governing the right of continuance by the defendant .in a criminal prosecution for the absence of witnesses; insufficient time for preparation; surprise, or any of the other usual grounds for continuance, notwithstanding the evident purpose of the Code provisions was to fix the trial at a time so as to give a minimum time for preparation but which could be extended by the court under the circumstances of each case. However, it is patent that it was the intention of the Legislature, and 'the purpose it had in view in enacting the Code provisions, to mandatorily require that defendant should have as much as three days after his first apprehension for preparation before the commonwealth could demand or enforce a trial of the indictment over his objection.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brock v. Commonwealth

2. ““All prosecutions shall stand for trial on the day to which they are docketed, if the defendant be in custody, or on bail, or have been summoned or arrested three days before the day fixed for the trial. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brock v. Commonwealth