Carver v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Boreing v. Beard · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Tartar 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The right to be heard by * * counsel * * * embraces the right * * * to have a reasonable opportunity to have his counsel present * * *.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right to poll the jury in criminal causes has in this state always been deemed an essential part of the right of trial by jury. It is guaranteed by both the constitution and the statute, and ought to be maintained and preserved by the courts as essential to the protection of the rights of the citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the most substantial right of the accused in a felony case'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. Wood Rice
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.