Martin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1977
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 East v. Commonwealth · Linde v. Commonwealth · Wallace v. Commonwealth · Vance v. Commonwealth · Etherton 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.
“It was manifestly unfair to lead the jury to believe that the judge believed the defendant to be guilty and that he was collaborating in the prosecution. We are not unaware of the weight which a jury attaches to the views of the trial judge. It was the duty of the court to sustain the objections to the argument and to admonish the jury clearly and emphatically that it was improper instead of telling the jury that they should be the judge of its propriety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If there had been no evidence against him, or not sufficient evidence against him to convict him, then the court after hearing the evidence, his Honor on the Bench, would have taken the case from the jury and the jury would not have been called upon to consider it and write a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If, in arguing the case, he gets out of the record, you are not to consider it. You will listen to his argument. He has a right to discuss the evidence and also the law in the case, but you know when he is out of the law and out of the evidence and you are not to consider it.””
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.