McHargue v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1958
9 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 Ellis v. Commonwealth · Foure v. Commonwealth · Thomas v. Commonwealth · McHargue v. Commonwealth · Greenwell 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An analysis of these cases is unnecessary. The court has always diligently sought to allow the attorney for the commonwealth such latitude as would enable him to fairly present the evidence and all reasonable deductions therefrom, and, at the same time, prevent his going out of the record or indulging in inferences not reasonably deducible from the evidence and circumstances disclosed to the jury. The statement of the attorney representing the commonwealth amounted to no more than a statement of the inference which counsel thought he could deduce from the evidence. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Commonwealth
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.