East v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), King v. Commonwealth (1934)
28 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 Owensboro Shovel & Tool Co. v. Moore · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Goff v. Commonwealth · Bennett v. Commonwealth · Baker 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * we bave * * * emphatically said, likewise repeatedly, that it was no part of the duty of prosecuting counsel to vilify and abuse a defendant on trial, nor counsel representing him; nor did such counsel have the right to argue facts for which there was no testimony to sustain, and which could in no sense be deduced therefrom ; nor did they have the right to state in their argument facts nowhere appearing in the record, and which emanated alone from counsel making the argument.””
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.