Tarkaney v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 1970 · most notably State v. Porth (1967), Kemp v. State (1965)
44 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mann's Administrator · Moore v. Commonwealth · Williams v. State · Pitts v. State · State v. Dickson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first question in this case is: Has a man been slain? We have direct evidence of death. Next we must look for clear and cogent evidence that the death is the result of some criminal agency. Then comes the question, who is the slain and who is the slayer; and the evidence must establish the identity of the one and the agency of the other, before there is anything to submit to a jury, and the evidence in this record does not do this.””
1 later decision 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.