Tarrence v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably State v. Freeman (1969), Gall v. Commonwealth (1980)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Phillips v. Commissioner · Fall v. United States · Marion v. Commonwealth · Higgins v. Commonwealth · Miller 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In many cases a large number of names are drawn from the wheel, and, if the court should be required to wait until all had been summoned and had appeared before proceeding with the trial, unnecessary delay would result.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is no indication in the affidavit supporting the motion that any other testimony in the defendant’s behalf might be available, and there is nothing in the record showing that the defendant was deprived of testimony of any material witness, or that the attorney could have done anything more than he did or have made a better defense ¡:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Freeman““Denial of the motion (for change of venue) will not authorize a reversal of a judgment of conviction where it appears from the record as a whole that a fair and impartial trial was given the defendant by the jury chosen.” Id. 265 S.W.2d at page 46 .”
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.